| 1. | But at the bottom of our souls, quite "down below," there is certainly something unteachable, a granite of spiritual fate, of predetermined decision and answer to predetermined, chosen questions. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 2. | It would seem that having rejected the belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |