Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 3 of Introduction
“The greatest human achievement is to fulfil one’s destiny.”
Originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction, August 1965; reprinted in Michael Moorcock (ed.) Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4, p. 83
Short fiction, The Source (1965)
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Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.”
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Original: Cumpri contra o Destino o meu dever.
Inutilmente? Não, porque o cumpri.
Daisaku Ikeda
(1928) Japanese writer
Variant: A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
Source: The Human Revolution
Leo Tolstoy
(1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: Patriotism and Christianity http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Patriotism_and_Christianity (1896), Ch. 17
Context: No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion.
And to accomplish this change no exertions of the mind are needed, nor the refutation of anything in existence, nor the invention of any extraordinary novelty; it is only needful that we should not succumb to the erroneous, already defunct, public opinion of the past, which governments have induced artificially; it is only needful that each individual should say what he really feels or thinks, or at least that he should not say what he does not think.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
(1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author
Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.14
