Arithmetic Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

— Gottfried Leibniz

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)”

— Ellen Klages

Music is math; music is spiritual.

— Bokeem Woodbine

Music is something that is born in the soul.

— Pedro Capo

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

— Tod Machover

“Music is an unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know it is philosophizing.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

— John Cage

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

— Artur Schnabel

“Listening to music, I realized, was simply the pleasure of counting without realizing you were counting.”

— Matt Haig