But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quickly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
“[Pertaining to The Law of Free Will and Karma]: Disputing traditional cause and effect karmic doctrine, Kuan Yin maintains that it is… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
“This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
“The division in human religion has always been between those who see the fall of man as a fall into freedom and… — R. Joseph Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up… — E. J. Gold Copy Share Image
“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law. — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The limit of a person's will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person's ability to believe.” — David Kane Copy Share Image
“Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will. — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
“What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...” — Henry Lindell Copy Share Image
You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding… — J. Robert King Copy Share Image
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and… — John Knox Copy Share Image
Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image