Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”
Life Force (1992) Source: [Kakutani, Michiko, 1992-02-07, Books of The Times; Fallout From a Multitude of Liaisons, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/books/books-of-the-times-fallout-from-a-multitude-of-liaisons.html, New York Times, 2020-02-12]
“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”
The Problem of Pain (1940)
“Even here, nothing ever happens; and nothing ever happens to it.”
1949 - 1958, Speech to the Penguins' (1949)
On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings
As quoted in "The Gentle Philosopher" (2006) by John Little at the Will Durant Foundation https://web.archive.org/web/20130312115951/http://www.willdurant.com/home.html
Context: It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it.
“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.”
