Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e.… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
“Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipulates that a choice must be… — Mark A. Tietjen Copy Share Image
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
“Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice"… — Oliver Gaspirtz 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
“No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal… — Leo Tolstoy 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
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it… — Christopher Janaway Copy Share Image
Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter… — Aeschylus 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
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved. — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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