Inclination Quotes (2)
Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es.
I know it; you are constrained by your inclination.
I know it; you are constrained by your inclination.
— Terence
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 383.
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
Letter to Asa Gray (22 May 1860). In Charles Darwin and Francis Darwin (ed.), Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters (1892), 236.
See also: | Belief (37) | Brute (3) | Chance (33) | Conclusion (24) | Content (6) | Design (12) | Detail (7) | Dog (6) | Hope (14) | Intellect (47) | Law (134) | Mind (116) | Nature Of Man (3) | Sir Isaac Newton (82) | Profound (5) | Result (25) | Result (25) | Satisfaction (5) | Universe (138) | Wonder (16)
