Free Will Quotes

Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.

Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.

An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.

I believe in free will. I have no choice.

If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.

I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

No free will of the creature can resist the will of God

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Free will...it's all the rage these days

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is insoluble.

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.