“While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that… — Jack E. Weller Copy Share Image
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Temptations cannot but come, but woe to those through whom they come.” — Matthew the Apostle Copy Share Image
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure." "So what, it's stupid to even try?" "No. It's unwise to… — Genevieve A. Ross Copy Share Image
“There's no spring in his step. No smile on his face. There's just a grim determination, grown strong over the years due… — Shawn P. McCarthy Copy Share Image
Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
“I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“First, all I could see was this beautiful face, this beautiful girl's face; like a white, slightly luminous mask, swimming detachedly against… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
