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Determinism Quotes

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"Nothing in nature is random A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge"

"The actual is the possible in so far as it is determined."

"Belief in free will is ubiquitous but problematic."

"We are launched on trajectories that are largely determined by the accidents of our first few years of life."

"The willing, Destiny guides them; the unwilling, Destiny drags them."

"We are determined by the fact of birth, by the bodily and mental structure we bring into the world"

"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"

"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"

"A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants"

"Luck is mere statistical flukes."

"It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work."

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity"

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity"

"There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

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