Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Understanding http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/understanding-4/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)
1990s and later
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Understanding http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/understanding-4/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher
Or, comme il y a une infinité d'univers possibles dans les idées de Dieu, et qu'il n'en peut exister qu'un seul, il faut qu'il y ait une raison suffisante du choix de Dieu qui le détermine à l'un plutôt qu'à l'autre. Et cette raison ne peut se trouver que dans la convenance, dans les degrés de perfection que ces mondes contiennent, chaque possible ayant droit de prétendre à l'existence à mesure de la perfection qu'il enveloppe.
La monadologie (53 & 54).
The Monadology (1714)
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Kenneth Boulding (1957) Segments of the economy, 1956, a symposium: the Fifth Economics-in-Action Program sponsored jointly by Republic Steel Corporation and Case Institute of Technology
1950s
“Everything that is possible demands to exist.”
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher
Omne possibile exigit existere.
De veritatibus primis (1686)
“It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.”
Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
As quoted in Visions : How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century (1999) by Michio Kaku, p. 295
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications