All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Every person and event exists by chance without predetermined design or purpose.
- In plain terms
- Everyone and everything happens just by coincidence.
- What can you take from it?
- Life has no grand plan; we exist by chance.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do you believe life has a plan?
- How much is luck?
Another view
It oversimplifies complex philosophical debates on fate.
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