You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There's three ways to do things: The right way, The wrong way and The way I want it done. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love people who freely express themselves and give others the space and courage to express themselves too. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth. — Ramana Maharshi 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
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And sincerely we're seeing When 'sinternally' seeking In a manner of speaking There, in the eve of Eden Wreaked a sea that… — Criss Jami 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
I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same… — Grace Zaring Stone Copy Share Image
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the secret recesses of man's nature the grace is given disposing and enabling him to yield. Though the will must at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t save people who didn’t want to be saved from themselves. First, they never stayed saved. Second, rescue pressed too deep… — Sarah E. Morin Copy Share Image
“If God did not arrange [the world] this way, then there must be an independent factor in the universe. And if there… — Gordon H. Clark Copy Share Image
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily… — John Banville Copy Share Image
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Even if you turn back the clock of the whole universe, you still can't stop and evildoer from exercising his free will.” — Bob Bello Copy Share Image
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“You are free to choose, But you are not exempted from the consequences of your choices.” — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
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