Human Agency Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “It's the niceties that make the difference; fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Fate, Choice, Life, Metaphor, Human Agency

2. “Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.”

John Milton

Nature, Responsibility, Duty, Self-improvement, Human Agency

3. “Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?”

William Blake

Divinity, Self-reliance, Faith, Philosophical Inquiry, Spiritual Insight, Human Agency

4. “In life, man proposes, God disposes.”

Aldous Huxley

Fate, Plans, Divinity, Human Agency, Life Unpredictability, Spiritual Perspective

5. “All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.”

T.S. Eliot

Time, Eternal, Illusion, Temporal Philosophy, Human Agency, Existential Reflection

6. “The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.”

Orson Scott Card

History, Individuality, Influence, Motivation, Human Agency, Societal Forces

7. “Life is the sum of your choices.”

Albert Camus

Choices And Life, Personal Philosophy, Human Agency, Choices, Life, Philosophy

8. “We only exist if we act.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Action Reflection, Life Meaning, Existential Insight, Human Agency, Philosophical Motivation, Personal Drive

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