Free Will Quotes

428 Free Will quotes by 307 unique authors

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. — Aldous Huxley
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. — Muhammad Iqbal
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. — Aung San Suu Kyi
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. — Niccolo Machiavelli
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free… — Jon Meacham
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven,… — Michelangelo
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will… — Alan Moore
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You don't have free will when you have lung cancer. — Bill O'Reilly
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. — Cesare Pavese
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! — Saint Francis de Sales
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. — Charles Spurgeon
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people. — Francis Collins
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free… — Charles Dickens
It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all… — Stephen King
You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of… — James M. Barrie
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way… — Scott Westerfeld
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded… — C.S. Lewis
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes

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