Free Will Quotes

428 Free Will quotes by 307 unique authors

If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that… — Stephen Hawking
How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not… — Sam Harris
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives… — Susan Cain
For free will is what makes us Heaven's creatures. — Cassandra Clare
... love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all. — Cassandra Clare
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth. — Ramana Maharshi
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some… — John Perkins
Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always… — Yasmine Galenorn
And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any… — Elizabeth Wein
Free will...it's all the rage these days — Lauren Kate
So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't… — Chuck Palahniuk
Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other. — Unknown Author
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will — Elizabeth Wein
You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do. — Sam Harris
If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is… — Mark Helprin
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study… — Maggie Stiefvater
The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions. — Paulo Coelho
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. — Leo Buscaglia
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And… — P.J. O'Rourke
There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit. — Neale Donald Walsch
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly. — Radhanath Swami
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and… — Clarence Darrow
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws. — Charles Darwin
The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science. In… — Stephen Hawking
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his… — Herman Melville

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