Quotes About Contingency

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

There are eight pieces, but I know I have to save four pieces just in case."

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

Freedom is the myth of unoccupied, empty, void souls. When nothing guides us, freedom seems an admirable program of action. In truth, freedom does not solve the problem of the lost soul in a universe of pure contingency, but imposes its own directives.

La confianza refleja la contingencia. La esperanza elimina la contingencia.

En última instancia, una vida no es más que la suma de hechos contingentes, una crónica de intersecciones casuales, de azares, de sucesos fortuitos que no revelan nada más que su propia falta de propósito.

Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst.

The knives I keep in my apartment are just sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their capacity. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go and split my throat. Against such a contingency it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbour.