Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I am inclined to believe that the world is a machine, but a machine of divine invention.

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves.

The Monads have no windows through which anything could enter or depart.

It is a good thing to be natural, but it is a bad thing to be rude.

The more I study, the more I am convinced that the world is not as simple as we imagine.

I have never been able to find a satisfactory definition of 'nothing'.

The actual infinite is not a concept that can be found in nature.

I am so fond of the Monads that I would not exchange them for all the gold in the world.

The world is not a machine, but an organism.

The art of reasoning is nothing but a kind of calculus.

It is a great advantage to be able to make use of the discoveries of others.

The Monads are the true atoms of nature.

I have often wished that I had been born in a time when there were no books.

The universe is a harmony of harmonies.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The best way to understand something is to explain it to someone else.

The Monads are like little universes, each reflecting the whole.

I have always been of the opinion that the world is full of wonders.

The art of discovery is not to invent, but to find.

The world is a labyrinth of interconnected events.