Distinctly Apprehended Quote by Marion Zimmer Bradley

“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

“Logically, such a nonoccurrence is just as much an event as an occurrence, but phenomenologically it is not.”

— Thomas Gilovich

“And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.”

— Scarlett Thomas

“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

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

— Elmar Hussein

“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

“Every small, concurrent event had slowed down and assumed an excruciating clarity.”

— Anthony Doerr

“Everything, every fact, bar none, has a cause, and we must understand that everything necessarily occurs.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated.…

— Epicurus

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

— Leucippus 5th Century B.c

“These appear to be random events, unrelated at this time, so, naturally they bear watching.”

— Special Agent Dale Cooper