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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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What is is what must be.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing without reason.
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Karma One Liner Reason
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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