It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
Gottfried LeibnizIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
Gottfried LeibnizAccording to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.
Gottfried Leibniz