Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
From a letter from Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz to Goldbach, 27 April 1712, quoted in O Sacks, The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.
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