Gottfried Leibniz

"To create is to participate in the divine act of making."

"The pursuit of happiness is less important than the pursuit of meaning."

"True victory is the conquest of oneself."

"The present is big with the future."

"There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself."

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."

"I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere."

"The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to explain the world in terms of a mathematical cosmos."

"There is no greater wealth than health."

"Mankind is divided into the rich and the poor, into the happy and the miserable."

"Justice means rendering to each what is due to him."

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

"The only way to keep up with the time is to invent the future."

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."

"Art is the unfolding of beauty."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation."

"True piety is not cruel; it is kind and gentle."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are allowed to remain children all our lives."

"Death is but a transition to a different state of being."

"Perfection belongs to the Divine alone."

"God is the ultimate ground of all reality."

"The best of all possible worlds exists in God's mind."

"Nothing happens without a reason; everything has a cause."

"Perception is the foundation of all knowledge."

"The soul and body perform their operations in concert."

"Continuity is a principle of all things."

"Human beings are capable of infinite improvement."

"Beauty arises from the perception of unity in diversity."

"Love is the desire to promote the happiness of others."