Chrysippus Quotes

If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?

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

All is bound by the law of causation

Everything has a cause.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

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

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

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

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

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

In historical events great men — so-called — are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

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

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

Political history is not a sequence of incoherent and haphazard events but a chain of causes and effects.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

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.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.