I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace. — Thomas Bradwardine Copy Share Image
It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til… — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of… — John Haggai Copy Share Image
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi… — Erna Paris Copy Share Image
I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I'm just being selfish… I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s,… — Beth Bailey Copy Share Image
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realized on some fundamental level that he was not in… — John Green Copy Share Image
If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction… — Robert Ferrar Copy Share Image
“ Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In my opinion and to the best of my understanding, free-will and pre-determination are two distinctly different economies that are 'operationally co-existent'".” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile. — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
“A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What a thing of free will to be in the air and to have that much control over one's directionality, up, down,… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
“On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to… — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm. — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
