However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs every...

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

quote by Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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