Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "The actual world is the most beautiful possible."

"The passing condition which involves and represents a multiplicity in the unity, or in the simple substance, is nothing else than what is called perception. This should be carefully distinguished from…"

"To be is to be a value."

"There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact."

"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…"

"For since it is impossible for a creature to be perfect, the universe would be even less perfect if it contained only perfect creatures."