If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), "First War-Time Diary"
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/17609/
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Behind the veil the Gods their Secrets keep,
And past that curtain none may hope to peep;
ne plot of earth is all we may secure.
Drink, then! for such philosophies are cheap.
Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 29 [tr. Talbot (1908)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/75494/
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A quotation from Chesterton, Gilbert Keith:
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
»
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https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/74179/
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« It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. »
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769073915744124928/it-is-an-act-of-evil-to-accept-the-state-of-evil
#quotes #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel #evil #good #finality #inevitability
A quotation from Eliot, George:
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
»
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https://wist.info/eliot-george/72029/
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A quotation from Omar Khayyam:
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
»
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https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/37611/
#quote #quotes #quotation #destiny #divinejudgment #experience #fatalism #fate #history #inevitability #life #regret
A quotation from Lowell, James Russell:
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
»
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https://wist.info/lowell-james-russell/20200/
#quote #quotes #quotation #buckleup #destiny #endurance #inevitability #survival #weather
A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:
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Fate always wins. Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out until too late that he’s been using two queens all along.
»
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https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/70707/
A quotation from Twain, Mark:
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
»
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https://wist.info/twain-mark/45584/
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Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
I was on #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. :gi:
A group of #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻
Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? :ablobcatcoffee:
Always there is. More. More #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. :ablobcatbouncefast:
www.theguardian.com
/commentisfree/article/2024/may/09/culture-warriors-national-trust-populists-polarising-divisive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
A quotation from Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von:
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Chance is necessity hidden behind a veil.
[Zufall ist die in Schleier gehüllte Nothwendigkeit.]
»
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https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/67622/
#quote #quotes #quotation #accident #chance #destiny #fate #fortune #inevitability #necessity #occurrence
Been quite a nice sunny day today in #Glasgow
Back to the usual wet stuff tomorrow then and the day after that and the day after that and the day after that and the day after that and.... #weather #Inevitability
A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:
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NORTON I: I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
DEATH: Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.
»
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https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/10064/
#quote #quotes #quotation #afterlife #curiosity #death #inevitability #mortality #question
A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:
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All Bette’s stories have happy endings. That’s because she knows where to stop. She’s realized the real problem with stories — if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
»
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https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/9455/
#quote #quotes #quotation #death #happyending #inevitability #story #writing
A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:
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The majority always has its way in the end. So does the undertaker. But neither gains in pleasantness by the fact.
»
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https://wist.info/mencken-hl/64367/
#quote #quotes #quotation #inevitability #majority #mortician #undertaker #unpleasantness
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
-- Marshall McLuhan
⬆ #Quotes #MarshallMcLuhan #Inevitability
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida
"There is no shelter from aging and #death.
Knowing this #inevitability,
Seek joy instead in the #goodness of your actions."
-- #Buddha
A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:
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For Freedom’s battle once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.
»»»»»
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https://wist.info/byron/62227/
#quote #quotes #quotation #freedom #freedomfighter #generations #inevitability #liberation #success
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
-- Marshall McLuhan
