Destiny/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words destiny and/or philosophy:

    I cannot
    Be mine own, not anything to any, if
    I be not thine. To this I am most constant,
    Though destiny says no.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)