“Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?”

Nature does not make leaps.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

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

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.

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

He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

All things in God are spontaneous.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Time is by my side I’m not running forward for time is not behind.

If you win, you need not have to explain. If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.

I loved you with all my heart turns out a whole for some is barely apart.

Ripples in the water slowly fade away they make way for the larger waves that stay.