For, Above All, I Hold A Notion Of Possibility And Necessity According To Which There Are Some Things That Are Possible, But Yet Not Necessary, And Which Do Not Really Exist. From This It Follows That A Reason That Always Forces A Free Mind To Choose One Thing Over Another (whether That Reason Derives From The Perfection Of A Thing, As It Does In God, Or From Our Imperfection) Does Not Eliminate Our Freedom.

-Gottfried Leibniz

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For, Above All, I Hold A Notion

Gottfried Leibniz

For, Above All, I Hold A Notion Of Possibility And Necessity According To Which There Are Some Things That Are Possible, But Yet Not Necessary, And Which Do Not Really Exist. From This It Follows That A Reason That Always Forces A Free Mind To Choose One Thing Over Another (whether That Reason Derives From The Perfection Of A Thing, As It Does In God, Or From Our Imperfection) Does Not Eliminate Our Freedom.

Topic

Perfection

Mind

Doe

[alternate Translation:] The Divine Spirit Found A Sublime Outlet In That Wonder Of Analysis, That Portent Of The Ideal World, That Amphibian Between Being And Not-being, Which We Call The Imaginary Root Of Negative Unity.

Science

Roots

Sublime