Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "The true method of advancing the sciences is to first lay solid foundations."

"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's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise."

"There are also two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possib…"

"There are two labyrinths of the human mind: one concerns the composition of the continuum, and the other the nature of freedom, and both spring from the same source—the infinite."

"Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?"