Quote#Science & Reason
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream…
Quote byGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1646–1716
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956) by J. R. Newman, p. 1832.
English (original)
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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