Determinism Quotes

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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. — Charles de Gaulle
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. — Carl Sandburg
It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. — Helen Walton
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and… — Stephen Jay Gould
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from… — Bruce Jenner
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural.… — Davis McCaughey
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave… — Nicky Gumbel
Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the… — Peter van Inwagen
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away… — Henry Wriston
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B.F. Skinner
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. — Bernard DeVoto
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. — Clarence Darrow
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that… — Eric Chaisson

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