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Free Will Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
- The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
- The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by…
- When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying…
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- Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with… — Richard Bach
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. — Bernard Baruch
- Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. — Scott Adams
- We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our… — Mortimer Adler
- This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. — Ugo Betti
- And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter… — Aeschylus
- Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved. — Anselm of Canterbury
- God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will… — Orson Scott Card
- Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires,… — Thomas Carlyle
- There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie
- Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like… — John Hospers
- 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