Fate Quotes
2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors
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The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength…
— Carl Jung
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Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.
— Carl Jung
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We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own…
— Max Horkheimer
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The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois…
— Max Horkheimer
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A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing…
— Herbert Marcuse
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Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men,…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the…
— Hannah Arendt
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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
— Euripides
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There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of…
— John F. Kennedy
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
— Simonides of Ceos
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This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I…
— Herman Melville
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Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who…
— Michael Moorcock
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Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?
— Joseph Bruchac
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But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work…
— Saul Bellow
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Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.
— Abdul Kalam
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But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme…
— Malcolm Bradbury
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Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it…
— Gayle Forman
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