Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily… — John Banville Copy Share Image
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned that is basic but bears repeating constantly: You are created with free will. Not even the Creator can… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Loss makes me feel vulnerable. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Elsevier operates by racket: if you do not send money, you will not read any papers. On my website, any person can… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
You are not bound. You have got free will. You cannot change the experiences, the results of Prarabdha but you can change… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
“Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice -… — Robert Rowland Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
I do belive in fate. It's hard to accept that it's maybe not possible to change anything and I don't really like… — Louis Hofmann Copy Share Image
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
If you believe in free will, why don't you have confidence in people to use it? Why do you want a government,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is a hard thing to accept, that our free will is limited by our genetic disposition, cornered by our social upbringing,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free yourself from the limitations and expectations of age. You can set a world record at any age be intrigued, be inspired. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.” — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
Speak doing you Dreams with conviction. Then you shall be justified and shown how to manifest them. — Marv Stark Copy Share Image
we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from… — Henry Ainsworth Copy Share Image
We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit. — John Milton Copy Share Image
This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“This isn't coincidence or charity. The System wants me to live. It wants me strong.” — Sung Jinwoo - Solo Leveling Copy Share Image
I'm not there to impose my religious beliefs on anybody, or say 'this is the only way you should think'. It's up… — Robert Hood Copy Share Image
