Choice Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“For what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being…

— Mark Twain

“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

— Harlan Mathews

A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good…

— John Owen

Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which…

— Jacques Maritain

“Because what is man without his volition but a stop on a barrel-organ cylinder?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

— William Blake

No one can have all he desires.

— Seneca the Younger

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“ "Ha! ha! ha! But after all, if you like, in reality there is not such thing as choice," you will interrupt with a…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky