Ram Dass Quotes

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

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Free will is to mind, what chance is to matter

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

I believe in fate.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they are known to anybody, or predictable by scientific means. But it asserts that the future is as little changeable as is the past. Everybody knows what we mean when we say that the past cannot be changed. It is in precisely the same sense that the future cannot be changed, according to metaphysical determinism.

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

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

Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.

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

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.