"The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible."

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Source : Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

Ludwig Buchner

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