Destiny/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words destiny and/or philosophy:

    “Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.”
    —R.D. (Ronald David)

    “The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)