It Is God Who Is The Ultimate

I Have Seen Something Of The Project Of M. De St. Pierre, For Maintaining A Perpetual Peace In Europe. I Am Reminded Of A Device In A Cemetery, With The Words: Pax Perpetua ; For The Dead Do Not Fight Any Longer: But The Living Are Of Another Humor; And The Most Powerful Do Not Respect Tribunals At All.

In Whatever Manner God Created The World, It Would Always Have Been Regular And In A Certain General Order. God, However, Has Chosen The Most Perfect, That Is To Say, The One Which Is At The Same Time The Simplest In Hypothesis And The Richest In Phenomena.

I Hold That The Mark Of A Genuine Idea Is That Its Possibility Can Be Proved, Either A Priori By Conceiving Its Cause Or Reason, Or A Posteriori When Experience Teaches Us That It Is In Fact In Nature.

In Symbols One Observes An Advantage In Discovery Which Is Greatest When They Express The Exact Nature Of A Thing Briefly And, As It Were, Picture It; Then Indeed The Labor Of Thought Is Wonderfully Diminished.

God, Possessing Supreme And Infinite Wisdom, Acts In The Most Perfect Manner, Not Only Metaphysically, But Also Morally Speaking, And ... With Respect To Ourselves, We Can Say That The More Enlightened And Informed We Are About God's Works, The More We Will Be Disposed To Find Them Excellent And In Complete Conformity With What We Might Have Desired.