
Definitions
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Definitions
the freedom of man and of nations — could never have been the origin of two world wars. These latter were brought about by fate, which exercises its power owing to the weakness and decline of freedom and of the creative spirit of man. Almost all contemporary political ideologies, with their characteristic tendency to state-idolatry, are likewise largely a product of two world wars, begotten as they are of the inexorability's of fate.
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 32
“All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time.”
The Builders.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Fate can be one mean god at times.”
Source: The Color of Magic
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
Source: A Brief History of Time
“It's like time travel only, you know, slower…”
Source: Regards sur le monde actuel [Reflections on the World Today] (1931), p. 156