Leibniz: “We are fortunate”

Posted on by David Lloyd Dusenbury

A Sunday morning thought, from one of the inventors of infinitesimal calculus: “We are fortunate that God is more charitable than humans.”

– G. W. Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding, bk IV, ch. 18; trans. P. Remnant & J. Bennett (Cambridge, 1996), p. 502

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