Philosophy Quote by Epicurus

“Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.”

— Anonymous

“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Sometimes events conspire to force one to do what should be done.”

— Madeline Hunter

“Contingency cannot be a contingent phenomenon. All unforeseen circumstances have unknown causes.”

— Elmar Hussein

“As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical impossibility.”

— Wittgenstein Ludwig

“The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“NOTHING OCCURS AT RANDOM, BUT EVERYTHING FOR A REASON AND BY NECESSITY.”

— Leucippus 5th Century B.c

[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any…

— Thomas Hobbes

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”

— S.F. Chapman