I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Let there be two possible things, A and B, one of which is such that it is necessary that it exists, and let us assume that there is more perfection in A than in B. Then, at least, we can explain why A should exist rather than B and can foresee which of them will exist; indeed, this can be demonstrated, that is, rendered certain from the nature of the thing.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

We live in the best of all possible worlds

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.