The world makes sense. Marcus Aurelius 6.5

As a good Stoic, Marcus does not accept Epicurean ideas about the world being a random outcome of blind material collisions occurring over time. He sees the soul of Nature as being rational, even when its reason escapes the limited perspective or horizon available to human faculties for reasoning. Every event in nature is meaningful as part of the living whole, even those we perceive as coincidental or wrong.


Ὁ διοικῶν λόγος οἶδε πῶς διακείμενος καὶ τί ποιεῖ καὶ ἐπὶ τίνος ὕλης.


The rational principle that rules knows its place, what it is doing and what material it needs.