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To the extent--which is often very large--that the future arises out of man's own character and capacities, it is both controllable and alterable, and yet at the same time bound to happen as if it inexorably had to conform to fate. What he is inhibits his freedom, yet if it were not there he would have remained as he was throughout all the reincarnations. But the changes of environment, the events of his personal history, draw out this freedom.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 4 : Free Will, Responsibility, and The World-Idea > # 87