Free Will Quotes
428 Free Will quotes by 307 unique authors
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
— Bram Stoker
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I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way...…
— Masashi Kishimoto
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Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.
— J R Ward
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Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter…
— Dean Koontz
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God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free…
— Jim Butcher
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Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
— C.S. Lewis
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If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded…
— Alexandre Dumas
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I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
— Daniel Dennett
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..."We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so…
— Kim Harrison
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The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
— Matt Ridley
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I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone…
— Neal Shusterman
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You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't…
— Hillary Jordan
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The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse…
— Sam Harris
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It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not…
— Haruki Murakami
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And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall?…
— Anne Rice
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The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
— C.S. Lewis
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You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
— Epictetus
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Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?
— Chuck Palahniuk
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This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
— Neal Stephenson
Who Wrote These Free Will Quotes
307 authors contributed a total of 428 Free Will Quotes, led by these top contributors: