"It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose."

Existence, Purpose, Design, Truth

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"It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose."

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"But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way o show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet is all we have."

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"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."

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