The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
Gottfried LeibnizEvery present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
Gottfried LeibnizThe present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
Gottfried LeibnizIf you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
Gottfried LeibnizIf we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness.
Gottfried Leibniz