Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

I believe in fate.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.