“We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response . . . mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.” — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize… — Carl Jung 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
“Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.” — Mikhail Bulgakov 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
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“English: "Belief in hard determinism is the most effective enslavement." Česky: „Víra v tvrdý determinismus je nejefektivnější zotročení.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You cant change the past. You cant even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our… — Honore de Balzac 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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds. — William James Copy Share Image
I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
