I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.


Letter to Bourguet, 1712

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to...

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to...

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to...

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to...