Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "Nothing is without a reason."

"When God calculates and exercises his thought, the world is made."

"every feeling is the perception of a truth..."

"A created thing is said to act outwardly in so far as it has perfection, and to be acted upon by another in so far as it is imperfect. Thus action is attributed to the monad in so far as it has distin…"

"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…"

"Certainly the condition of our affairs [in Europe], slipping as we are into ever greater corruption, seems to be such that we need missionaries from the Chinese who might teach us the use and practice…"