Jan Kott quotes

“Fate is nonawareness.”
-- Jan Kott

Source : Jan Kott, Boleslaw Taborski, Edward J. Czerwinski (1987). “Eating of the Gods”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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“It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.”
-- Jan Kott

Source : Jan Kott (2015). “Shakespeare, Our Contemporary”, p.90, Doubleday

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“But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.”

“Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.”

“A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.”

“One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.”

“By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.”

“When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.”

“Geography is destiny.”

“I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party.”

“The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

“Our future is our sense of common destiny.”

Source : "We in Turkey and the Middle East have replaced humiliation with dignity" by Ahmet Davutoglu, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.