Bill Maher Quotes

Our actions are preordained by the Fox God's prophecy.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

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

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

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

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

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

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

I'm a fatalist.

All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

We usually get what we anticipate.

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.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

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

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.