Henri Bergson Quotes

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

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

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

I believe in fate.

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.

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

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

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

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

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.

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.