„Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.“
— Aristotle
„The universal intelligence puts itself in motion for every separate effect… or it puts itself in motion once, and everything else comes by way of a sequence in a manner; or individual elements are the origin of all things. In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou be governed by it.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Every morn brought forth a noble chance, and every chance brought forth a noble knight.“
— Winston S. Churchill