... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Intuition goes before you, showing you the way. Emotion follows behind, to let you know when you go astray. Listen to your… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other". R.… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“A predator is what you are, and nothing you can do will change that. But being a killer is a choice you… — Obie Williams Copy Share Image
How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn't God's fault when people mistreat me. I still have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“With every sunrise, we get to choose ... who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the… — Nicole Y. Walters Copy Share Image
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
You are the Creator of your reality... you were granted this ability. You have free will... you are an unlimited aspect, a… — Darryl Anka Copy Share Image
“If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference; Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul.… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
“The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very… — Nathaniel Branden 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
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
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
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
“Man holds dominion and was given free will but the irony is that he must learn to surrender his will --- as… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Materialism doesn't matter I love you, let's live for laughter Make a maneuver Avoid being apart of consumerism consuming consumers Just be… — Andrew Edward Lucier Copy Share Image
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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