“Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can't… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge,… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Creator puts life into motion, and doesn’t just sit around all day moving each and every piece this way and that… — Sean Patrick Brennan Copy Share Image
In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,”… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
Reality is on a delay. For you, nothing is now. Realizing this fact is unsettling. If we can only react to the… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“Attempting to constantly control everyone and everything around you is not only exhausting...it is also futile. The only real power you can… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it… — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
God is never at a loss because He cannot find someone to cooperate with Him in carrying out His plan. He so… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present.… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I went on national television - went on national television and said. 'I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
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