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[from 'Letters to Samuel Clarke' by Gottfried Leibniz, in 28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof ]

Full Idea

By this principle alone, that there must be a sufficient reason why things are thus rather than otherwise, I prove the existence of the Divinity, and all the rest of metaphysics or natural theology.

Gist of Idea

The existence of God, and all metaphysics, follows from the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], §2)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.207