"Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi."
— Gottfried Leibniz

January 1, 1970

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Arthur Schopenhauer paraphrased this quotation in the first book of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung: Musica est exercitium metaphysices occultum nescientis se philosophari animi. (Music is a hidden metaphysical exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is philosophizing.)