A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Honore de Balzac

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

Honore de Balzac

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

Soren Kierkegaard

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

John William Draper

Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.

Dalai Lama

Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.

Alvin Toffler

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Herbert Marcuse

As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.

Mitt Romney

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Aleister Crowley

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

Chloe Rose Lattanzi

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

David Eddings

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

Steven Pinker

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

Josiah Royce

No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.

Anish Giri

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

Dan Harmon

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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