“Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Freedom is a length of rope. God wants you to hang yourself with it.” — Supernatural Castiel Copy Share Image
If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles. — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire. — R. C. Sproul 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
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
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“...the magic was a tool, though a natural, mysterious tool. In its awareness of the magic, his human nature had desired to… — Derek Donais Copy Share Image
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of… — Pierre-Simon Laplace 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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 remember him as young and restless. Slightly wild and free. The woods were his escape, his sanctuary. Thats where we would… — Jade Copy Share Image
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Since we have free will, we create our own reality and virtually everything is negotiable.” — Shepherd Hoodwin Copy Share Image
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will. — Epictetus Copy Share Image