“If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.” PeopleIfsThinkingHeartCareWantedWishNegativeDeterminationMurderDeterminedNaziNegative PeopleBad Heart Author:Eddie Izzard
“Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.” ThinkingGivingMindLife IsGivenWishOur LivesFateGiving UpDetermined Author:George Eliot
“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.” KnowsShouldMindWholeAbleDesireHateBeliefWishInterestAttitudeImagineEmotionalMaterialsNegativeRelationDeterminedBiasSubjectiveSweepingLove And HateSuppressionPreconceptionsFear Of LoveHopes And FearsEmotional Life Book:Mysticism and Logic Source: Mysticism and Logic
“Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)” IfsKnowsHas BeensBookEnoughStoriesReadingWishMy OwnInterestingFictionWrittenDeterminedFantasticImpressedHostileIngeniousAllegoryReviewers Book:Reflections on the Psalms Source: Reflections on the Psalms