Aldous Huxley Quotes

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

Does our hand show in this?

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

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.

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.

We create our own destiny.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

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

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

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

Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

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

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.