Determinism Quotes

"God does not play dice with the universe." "I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. " "Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity" "Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past" "We are launched on trajectories that are largely determined by the accidents of our first few years of life." "Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will" "Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity" "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills" "Behavior is determined by its consequences" "A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants" "There is nothing without a reason." "The actual is the possible in so far as it is determined." "Luck is mere statistical flukes." "Belief in free will is ubiquitous but problematic." "In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause which is likewise determined by another cause and this last by another and so on to infinity" "Nothing in nature is random A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge" "Man is a reasonable being and as such he always continues to act as if he were a free agent though he is in fact otherwise" "The universe is without design and without purpose." "I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will" "It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work."