Quotes About Predetermination

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

En el primer volumen de Panerga und Paralipomena releí que todos los hechos que pueden ocurrirle a un hombre, desde el instante de su nacimiento hasta el de su muerte, han sido prefijados por él. Así, toda negligencia es deliberada, todo casual encuentro una cita, toda humillación una penitencia, todo fracaso una misteriosa victoria, toda muerte un suicidio.

How perfect were the dictates of fate!

in election and "irresistible" grace God does not disregard or act contrary to the will of any man or woman, as implied above. Rather, He regenerates the individual, as the result of which a will is born that now desires what the old will previously despised. Before, George hated Christ. Now he loves Him and so comes willingly when the gospel is preached. Again, if Mary desires to come, it is not in spite of God's predetermination in her case but because of it.

If you think about it for a moment, destiny is not a synonym of circumstance.

Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.

Everything has been, everything has happened. And everything has already been written about.

such conduct in a man high in office argues greater attachment to his own power than to the public good and furnishes strong reason to suspect a dangerous predetermination to oppose whatever may tend to diminish the former, however it may promote the latter.

The world has its way with us long before we're born.

I always believe whatever is written in your fate will happen.

Destiny knows no favorites.

Pay attention to fate, Mrs. Osgood. It will always have the last word.

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

Like every human being, Alvin was in some measure a machine, his actions predetermined by his inheritance. That did not alter his need for understanding and sympathy, nor did it render him immune to loneliness or frustration. To his own people, he was so unaccountable a creature that they sometimes forgot that he still shared their emotions.

It was the fault of destiny!

Il n'y a pas de hasard, il n'y a que des méchancetés du sort et ses perfidies, préparées de longue main, n'ont cette apparence fortuite que parce que les dessous nous en échappent.

Factory settings—a contemporary synonym for fate.

I have learned long ago, there is no negotiating with destiny.

We can't have choice and free will and still be fated.

This book is concerned with fate.

how to escape predetermination, the mechanical sign of the meal... is not an evasion of a social-gender role; it's not regression. It is an active stance: the rejection of the cynicism that this culture hands us through its food, the creation of an involuted body.

To the question of what causes historic events another answer presents itself, namely, that the course of human events is predetermined from on high—depends on the coincidence of the wills of all who take part in the events, and that a Napoleon's influence on the course of these events is purely external and fictitious.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

What is decreed must be, and be this so.