Quote#Wisdom
Everything takes place according to a living principle and according…
Quote byGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1646–1716
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Thomas Burnet (1697), as quoted in Platonism, Aristotelianism and Cabalism in the Philosophy of Leibniz (1938) by Joseph Politella, p. 18.
English (original)
everything takes place according to a living principle and according to final causes — all things are full of life and consciousness, contrary to the views of the Atomists.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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