Destiny/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words destiny and/or philosophy:

“There is a power in love to divine another’s destiny better than that other can, and, by heroic engagements, hold him to his task.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)