Knock Twice

fate

Arthur Schopenhauer

acceptance

resignation

resigning

bad luck

karma

pessimism

patience

rushing

hurrying

meaninglessness

sign

is a way people without firmness of character relieve themselves of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves... that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. Ivan Turgenev

is the same word as character, only spelled differently.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing Novalis

is, as a general rule, nothing but what one calls one's own stupid and foolish conduct.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct. Arthur Schopenhauer

is culture embedded into life conduct. It is either realized or frustrated.

Culture ('Kultur'), for Weber, is always live rather than dormant, and does not exist as a rotating flywheel in neutral, so to speak, waiting its engagement with history. Culture embedded into life conduct is fate or destiny, and it is either realized or frustrated.

is mostly but the echo of one's character and passion, one's mistakes and one's weaknesses.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses. Democritus

is a thing which, together with temperament, are two words for one and the same concept.

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept. That was clear to me now.

is distinguished from destiny in that it is not that things happen to us according to our fate, but that we interpret what has happened to our sense of our own destiny.

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny . Cesare Pavese

 should be treated like one does one's health... enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health... enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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