Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quote

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


In: Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wifefor a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - The Twins (p. 195)


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

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

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

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