“The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of "fatalism."”
Leon Trotsky book My Life
Foreword (1929) http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/mylife/foreword.htm <br class="br">My Life (1930)
“There always remains a certain amount of arbitrary spontaneity in its action, without which it would be dead.”
The Law of Mind (1892)
Context: But no mental action seems necessary or invariable in its character. In whatever manner the mind has reacted under a given sensation, in that manner it is the more likely to react again; were this, however, an absolute necessity, habits would become wooden and ineradicable, and no room being left for the formulation of new habits, intellectual life would come to a speedy close. Thus, the uncertainty of the mental law is no mere defect of it, but is on the contrary of its essence. The truth is, the mind is not subject to "law," in the same rigid sense that matter is. It only experiences gentle forces which merely render it more likely to act a given way than it otherwise would be. There always remains a certain amount of arbitrary spontaneity in its action, without which it would be dead.
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