There are two labyrinths of the human mind: one concerns the composition of the continuum, and the other the nature of freedom, and both spring from the same source—the infinite.
Calculus, optimism
From his 'Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil'.
1710
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