Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
