I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what? — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
... love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response . . . mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.” — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.” — neil peart Copy Share Image
I know my opponents choose to fight of their own free will. But they have families and loved ones, and I know… — Alex Pereira Copy Share Image
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if… — Tarsem Singh Copy Share Image
“Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while… — The Adjustment Bureau 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
“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
“Aren’t you at all curious about your past?” Rhys asked. “No, my present is who I am. Your identity is whoever you… — Jeffrey Perren Copy Share Image
Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will?… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“The answer to the question raised in the title of this essay - Is salvation a matter of divine determination or human… — Layton Talbert Copy Share Image
“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of… — Pierre Simon de Laplace Copy Share Image
“Take the Holocaust for example: Why did God allow Hitler to kill millions of innocent Jews? Because God didn't want to step… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill and betray his son, choose the… — David G. McAfee 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
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“My destiny plays with me in such a way I feel I play with my destiny.” — Vivake Pathak Copy Share Image
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.” — Raymond M. Smullyan Copy Share Image
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds. — William James Copy Share Image
