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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 Ref
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.
14062 | Sooner follow mythology, than accept the 'fate' of natural philosophers [Epicurus] |
20836 | The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero] |
20837 | Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus] |
21679 | When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus] |
23315 | The nearest to ancient determinism is Stoic fate, but that is controlled by a sympathetic God [Stoic school, by Frede,M] |
21674 | Even Apollo can only foretell the future when it is naturally necessary [Carneades, by Cicero] |
23347 | If I know I am fated to be ill, I should want to be ill [Epictetus] |
13162 | Sloth's Syllogism: either it can't happen, or it is inevitable without my effort [Leibniz] |
24133 | I have perfected fatalism, as recurrence and denial of the will [Nietzsche] |
24152 | Fate is inspiring, if you understand you are part of it [Nietzsche] |
9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |