It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.

In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.

Fate is what happens to you when your luck runs out.

Fate is what happens to you when your luck runs out.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before read more

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets
to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic read more

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets
to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct
from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our
seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own
influences.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is read more

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.
[Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals read more

I feel that I am a man of destiny.
[Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]