Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
Interpretation
Fate represents events that havenβt been deeply considered or understood yet.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that what we often refer to as fate consists of events and circumstances that have not yet been thoughtfully examined or understood. He implies that fate is not merely predetermined; rather, it encompasses causes that we have yet to explore, urging us to engage with our experiences and perceptions critically to uncover their true significance.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion on destiny and free will.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.
Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
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