"The ultimate reason of things must lie in……" — Gottfried Leibniz
"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."
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Gottfried Leibniz
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72 Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
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