Quotes from Leibniz

As there is an infinite number of possible universes in the ideas of God, and as only one can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God’s choice, to determine him to one rather than to another.

— kind of string-theoretical!

Pleasure is a knowledge or feeling of perfection, not only in ourselves, but also in others, for in this way some further perfection is aroused in us.

It is one of my most important and best verified maxims that nature makes no leaps. This I have called the law of continuity.

— continuity->perfection->pleasure