The Present Is Great With The Future.

Therefore, I Have Attacted [the Problem Of The Catenary] Which I Had Hitherto Not Attempted, And With My Key [the Differential Calculus] Happily Opened Its Secret. Acta Eruditorum

These Principles Have Given Me A Way Of Explaining Naturally The Union Or Rather The Mutual Agreement [conformité] Of The Soul And The Organic Body. The Soul Follows Its Own Laws, And The Body Likewise Follows Its Own Laws; And They Agree With Each Other In Virtue Of The Pre-established Harmony Between All Substances, Since They Are All Representations Of One And The Same Universe.

I Am So In Favor Of The Actual Infinite That Instead Of Admitting That Nature Abhors It, As Is Commonly Said, I Hold That Nature Makes Frequent Use Of It Everywhere, In Order To Show More Effectively The Perfections Of Its Author.

The World Is Not A Machine. Everything In It Is Force, Life, Thought.

Nothing Is More Important Than To See The Sources Of Invention Which Are, In My Opinion More Interesting Than The Inventions Themselves.