Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "For the glory of God is the ultimate end of all things."

"Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything."

"It is not absurd for discerning Europeans . . . to see something today which is not adequately known by the Chinese erudites, and to be able to interpret their ancient books better than the erudites t…"

"God has chosen the best of all possible worlds, not because it is the most perfect in every respect, but because it is the most perfect in the whole."

"For since all the possibles in the understanding of God laid claim to existence in proportion to their perfections, the actual world, as the resultant of all these claims, must be the most perfect pos…"

"It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things."