Fate Quote by Sydney Smith

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms;…

— Bertrand Russell

“What is the verdict of the vastest mind? Silence: the book of fate is closed to us. Man is a stranger to his own…

— Voltaire

“Nothing upsets the philosophical mind more than when he hears that from now on all philosophy is supposed to lie caught in the shackles…

— Friedrich Schelling

“Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human life,’ argued the artificial philosopher Photozeiger. ‘It is much more serious. For when…

— Matt Suddain

Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that without consciousness,…

— Antonio Damasio

“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes…

— Bertrand Russell

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

— Allen Ginsberg

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in…

— Arthur Koestler

But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch…

— Melina Marchetta

What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen,…

— James Hilton