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Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

“Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?”

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German mathematician, philosopher, historian, and inventor. Gottfried Leibniz is one of the founders of calculus and has made significant contributions to mathematics, philosophy, history, and other fields. more

“Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.”

World Ideas Reason Choices Universe Found Existence Degrees Perfection Claims Determine Sufficient Proportion Infinity

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.”

Prove Consideration

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.”

Ifs Ideas Different Soul Form Clear Species

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.”

Believe Has Beens Evil Mixtures

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.”

World Independent Substance Worlds Apart

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.”

World Has Beens Certain Order Perfect Chosen Hypothesis Simplest

Book:Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology

Source: Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology

“I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.”

Percent Driving Time Of My Life

Author:David Hasselhoff

“There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.”

Two Reason Evil Elements Concern Infinite Productions Discussion Consideration Continuity Labyrinth

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Let bygones be bygones.”

Forgiveness Bygones Let Bygones Be Bygones

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.”

Memories Rooms Blessed Thrones Centre

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

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