Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever
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"Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?" (original Latin: cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil) is a question asked by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
It stems from De rerum originatione radicali (1697); reprinted in God. Guil. Leibnitii Opera philosophica quae exstant latina, gallica, germanica omniaː 1 (1840), p. 148
Cf. Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? (1929)ː "Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage."
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