There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the… — Kuan Yin Copy Share Image
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility. — Raymond Smullyan 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
“When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for… — Rob Bell 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
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image
“Kuan Yin is showing me picture of a windsurfer skimming effortlessly along the ocean's surface," describes Ms. Lees. "While quite skilled, he… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price… — Stephen Covey 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
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
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
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest,… — Mark Twain 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
“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
“Destiny is variable, not fixed; it is forever changing depending upon your free will to make choices for what you want your… — steven redhead Copy Share Image
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn how little the cleverest… — Isaiah Berlin 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
“You are not what you want; you are what you have been made to be” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Love is a compulsion you can’t subdue; an irresistible force, one can’t restrain! It’s not in our control, no matter how hard… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image