Free Will Quotes

428 Free Will quotes by 307 unique authors

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close,… — Chuck Palahniuk
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. — John Taylor Gatto
Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all,… — Neil Gaiman
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with… — Carl Jung
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do… — Diana Wynne Jones
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of… — Leo Tolstoy
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change. — Madeleine Albright
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to… — Frank Herbert
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. — Winston Churchill
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil.… — Agatha Christie
He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in… — Audrey Niffenegger
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it… — Chuck Palahniuk
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for… — Dean Koontz
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like… — C.S. Lewis
Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of… — Haruki Murakami
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or… — Ayn Rand
In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered… — Carol Shields
You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after… — Libba Bray
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
On the chessboard of his godforsaken existence, the pieces were lined up, the play preordained. Man, so many times in life you didn't get to… — J R Ward
No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The… — Michael Grant
Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true… — J R Ward

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