Philosophy & Thought: Free Will & Fate Quotes

"Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think"

Chuck Jones, Director

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be"

Cecil Taylor, Musician

"It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well"

Yannick Noah, Athlete

"Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself"

John Frusciante, Musician

"I believe that everything in life happens for a reason"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Man proposes, and God disposes"

Ludovico Ariosto, Poet

"It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate"

Gary Cherone, Musician

"Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else"

Elliott Smith, Musician

"It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances"

Thomas Reid, Philosopher

"I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance"

Wayne Newton, Musician

"All imaginable futures are not equally possible"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"I confess I've never felt like a passenger"

Roger Waters, Musician

"Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on"

Citium Zeno, Philosopher

"Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on"

Richard Cecil, Clergyman

"Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned"

John Lone, Actor

"I don't believe in karma"

Sandra Bernhard, Actress

"I think things happened the way they did for a reason"

Aaron Neville, Musician

"So I try not to look too far into the future, because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason"

Carrot Top, Comedian

"I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"Fate keeps on happening"

Anita Loos, Writer

"I've never been able to predict the future of anything"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course"

Alex Trebek, Entertainer

"Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Women have a predestination to suffering"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood"

Nicolas Malebranche, Philosopher

"You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know"

Janet Fitch, Author

"The key to your universe is that you can choose"

Frederick C. Frieseke, Painter

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