Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

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

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

I believe in fate.

I disagree with the idea that everything happens for a reason.

Well, there are a lot of things outside our control - outside my control. And this is true with anybody's life: You try to keep the train on a certain track, and then there are a lot of moving parts that you can't control. And that tends to make you nervous.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

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

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Anything that happens, happens.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

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

All things happen by virtue of necessity.