Jose Rizal Quotes

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

And nature must obey necessity.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

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

What is done from necessity involves neither censure nor applause

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?

The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Nature means Necessity.

I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

The force of necessity is irresistible.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.

What is not possible is not to choose.