How you see yourself in the light of wisdom and understanding is very different. — Marv Stark Copy Share Image
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
“Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“[...T]he ways of God have been manifested beyond example: the sea is divided, the cloud has led the way, the rock has… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies… — Don Richardson 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 universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“. . . it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
“Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.” — Michelle D. Rosado Copy Share Image
I think we have a free will, and at the same moment we don't. We have to live with that. It doesn't… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image