We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

The conspiracy theory of society comes from abandoning god and then asking Who is in his place.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Fate keeps on happening.

But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.