“Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. […] It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions (principles). This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.” (Gottfried W Leibniz, 1670)
"When a rule is extremely complex, that which conforms to it passes for irregular (random)." (Gottfried Leibniz, "Discourse on Metaphysics", 1686)
"God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts." (Gottfried W Leibniz, "Protogaea", 1693/1759)
"[...] nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part." (Gottfried W Leibniz [letter to Jacob Bernoulli], 1703)
"There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible." (Gottfried W Leibniz, "Monadology", 1714)
"The helps offered to improve the mind consist in certain ways of thinking which facilitate thinking." (Gottfried W Leibniz)
"There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance." (Gottfried W Leibniz)
"This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God." (Gottfried W Leibniz)
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