Single Idea 9253

[catalogued under 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate]

Full Idea

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it.

Gist of Idea

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it

Source

Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus [1942], 'Appendix')

Book Reference

Camus,Albert: 'The Myth of Sisyphus', ed/tr. O'Brien,Justin [Penguin 1975], p.115


A Reaction

Nice. It might just as much be fate that you live a happy bourgeois life, as that you inadvertently murder your own father at a crossroads. But you can't avoid the powerful awareness of fate when a road accident occurs.