Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

the art of making discoveries should be extended by considering noteworthy examples of it.

everything takes place according to a living principle and according to final causes — all things are full of life and consciousness, contrary to the views of the Atomists.

I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of …

love of country and of the public good, and the welfare of before fortune and even before life.

slithering into fashionable books, are inclining

into the minds of men of high station

beliefs that go against the providence of a perfectly good, wise, and just God

taking mathematicians from the beginning of the world to the time when Sir Isaac lived, what he had done was much the better half

Il y a jusque dans les exercices des enfants ce qui pourrait arrêter le plus grand Mathématicien.

TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

as there are an infinity of possible worlds, there are also an infinity of laws, certain ones appropriate to one; others, to another, and each possible individual of any world involves in its concept the laws of its world.

Omne possibile exigit existere.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Languages are the best mirror of the human mind [and] the most ancient monu­ments of peoples.