"The world is not a heap of atoms, but a system of monads."

"If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness."

"For since it is impossible for a creature to be perfect, the universe would be even less perfect if it contained only perfect creatures."

"imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful resource of the divine intellect, almost an amphibian between being and non-being."

"I have found that most of the sects are right in a good part of what they assert, but not so much in what they deny."