There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.