“Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage.”
“Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.”
-What is Metaphysics? (1929), p. 110
Cf. Gottfried Leibniz, De rerum originatione radicali (1697)ː “cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil.”