Determinism Quotes
182 quotes by 128 authors
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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
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Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
— Carl Sandburg
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It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
— Helen Walton
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
— Nido R Qubein
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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
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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
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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
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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
— Franz Kafka
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... 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
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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
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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
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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
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A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
— B.F. Skinner
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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
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History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
— Bernard DeVoto
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"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
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It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
— Clarence Darrow
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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
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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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