Problem of evil · Skopia

Quotes

13

Novel · Satire

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Candide · 1759

★ 7.6

Novel · Satire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.4

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people?

Harold S. Kushner

When Bad Things Happen to Good People · 1981

★ 6.0

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Books

3

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

1985★ 9.1

The Consolation of Philosophy

524★ 7.4

Philosophical Essays

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

1710★ 6.3