Predetermined Outcomes Quotes

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether you're going to pick up this or that fork as you begin your meal. There really is none: It's all biology.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that.

Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that.

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.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.