Free Will Quotes

428 Free Will quotes by 307 unique authors

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? — Jim Butcher
Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the… — Kurt Vonnegut
I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains. — Jean Webster
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering… — Sophie Scholl
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. — Anthony Burgess
I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And… — Hilari Bell
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free… — Mary Roach
There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer… — Rachel Caine
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it. — Bertrand Russell
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. — Flannery O'Connor
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud! — Emilie Autumn
But if fate won’t be denied...if it’s set, how could there be infinite possibilities? (Kat) Only certain aspects are fated. The outcome isn’t. It was… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life calls the tune, we dance. — John Galsworthy
Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he… — Garth Stein
i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of… — Jeanette Winterson
you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in… — Terry Goodkind
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path. — Dean Koontz
People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did… — Lee Child
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot,… — Malcolm Gladwell
We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose… — Kathleen McGowan
A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster. — Milan Kundera

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