Fatalism Quote by William James Download Open image “The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fatalism Free will Impulse Indestructible Life Race Racism Vagueness
“In many ways, a race is analogous to life itself. Once it is over, it can not be re-created. All that is left are… — Chris Lear Copy Share Image
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face.-RVM — RVM Copy Share Image
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death. — Theodor Reik 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 take life… — William James Copy Share Image
“Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Life is an endurance race that is always devouring your soul from the inside and out. In the end the race is nothing. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as… — William James Copy Share
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it… — William James Copy Share
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made… — William James Copy Share
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes you promises, don't trust her unless they're in the here and now, and just her willing largesse free-handed to a friend. The art of living isn't hard to muster: groom the old dog, her coat gets back its… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their… — Pat Robertson Copy Share
“The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I… — Megan Hart Copy Share
The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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