Free will Quote by William James Download Open image “The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Free will Psychological Psychology
If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what? — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether you're going… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
“The answer to the question raised in the title of this essay - Is salvation a matter of divine determination or human responsibility? -… — Layton Talbert Copy Share Image
“Mastema prefers absolutes. He wants fences on the world and everything in its place, neat and tidy as a churchyard garden. God is not… — Kirby Crow Copy Share Image
“There is a big park in the middle of the locality. Surrounded by at least 50 houses. That those residents got to live in… — Andy Paula Copy Share Image
“Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like… — The Adjustment Bureau Copy Share Image
They either attach themselves to God's will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God's will, are justly subjected… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image