Quotes on Inevitability

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.