Author of quotes: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Whoever wants to confine himself to the present, without knowing the past, will never understand the present.

The present always hides the future in its depths.

We are made to think.

Mercy is a universal good, the realization of which is accomplished by the wise in accordance with the requirements of common sense in order to obtain the greatest amount of benefit.

Music is an unconscious exercise of the soul in arithmetic.

Complex numbers are a beautiful and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian of being with nonexistence.

We expect three benefits from history: first of all - the pleasure of learning unusual things, then - useful instructions, especially for life, and finally - a story about how the present came from the past, when everything is perfectly deduced from its causes.

To exist is to be in harmony.

Everything in the world is good, and our world itself is the best of all.

To suppose two things indiscernible means to put the same thing under different names.

There are no two indistinguishable from each other individual things.

The fact that all nature has a direction of its movement, and not the other, also has a reason.

The world consists of countless things that interact, and there is no such thing, no matter how small, far off it might be that, according to his measure, it has not made any contribution in the universal interaction.

The whole future world has already been set in the modern world.