Neil Peart Quotes

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

Free will is to mind, what chance is to matter

People make their own destinies.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

Does our hand show in this?

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.