Thomas Mann Quotes

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

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

We create our own destiny.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

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

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

Does our hand show in this?

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.

People make their own destinies.

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.