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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz@gottfried-leibniz Β· 1714
The first question which should rightly be asked is this: why is there something rather than nothing? Nothing is simpler and easier than something. If there is a world, if there are minds, bodies, laws, relations, and histories, then reason asks not merely what they are, but why there is any such order at all.
β Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason, Section 7 (1714)
17th Century