Clergyman's

“Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.”
— Neel Mukherjee

“This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?”
— Max Planck

“Whether or not it is clear to you,no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
— Max Ehrmann

“Sometimes evil didn’t need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.”
— Nenia Campbell

“Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.”
— Raheel Farooq

“The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously.”
— Raheel Farooq

“I’ve been coerced into free will.”
— Brian Spellman

“He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing”
— Johnny Rich

“Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.”
— Jorge Luis Borges

“There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn’t even terrible; it’s possibly funny, if even that. It’s embarrassing. That’s all. A little embarrassing to realize that I no longer control my life, that the major decisions have already been made, long before I was conscious that any change was occurring.”
— Philip K. Dick

“The future is just a projection of the past.”
— Vivake Pathak

“thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.”
— Marge Piercy

“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like”
— Zeno of Citium