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We live in the best of all possible worlds

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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those…
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another....
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and…
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite…
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it…
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than…
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to…
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that…
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better…
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting…
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

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We live in the best of all possible worlds — Gottfried Leibniz
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Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds." — Unknown Author
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I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of… — Frederick Lenz
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their… — Roger Ebert
If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or… — Tim Pratt
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this… — James Branch Cabell
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. — F. H. Bradley
When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one… — Roberto Unger

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