"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

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"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

Explore more quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

Life, Giving, Living, Will

"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

Happiness, Maturity, Play

"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."

Death, Decency, Will

"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."

God, Draft

""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

Rights, Humanrights, Philosophy

"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."

People, Nations, Right, Thinking

"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

Death, Fulfillment, Road, Will

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

Attention, May

"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

Duty, Integrity, Man, Responsibility

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

Friendship, Loneliness, Needs, Solitude

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"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

History, Misery, Want

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

History,

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

History, Lies

"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

Ronald Reagan, American President

History, War, Aggression

"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

History, Truth, Fact, Man, Present

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

History,

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

History, People, Events, Past

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

Mark Twain, American Author

History, Prejudice

"History is more or less bunk."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

History,