A Quote by Simon Blackburn
Chance is as relentless as necessity.
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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.
The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
You have got to be maniacal and relentless - relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth.
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.
In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
The book Relentless' is an awesome book. It taught me a lot about just staying consistent, being level-headed, being relentless at what you want to do.
In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.
It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).
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