Johannes Kepler Quotes

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

The world is as it should be.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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.

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

I feel like everything happens for a reason.

If everything happens for a reason, what's the reason?

I feel like everything happens for a reason.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

Everything has a cause.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

Anything that happens, happens.

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.