quotes about Free Will
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Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.
-- Aidan of Lindisfarne -
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
-- Alberto Moravia -
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 happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?
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That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
-- Alfred BesterSource : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
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There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.
-- Ann Coulter -
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
-- Anthony Burgess -
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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
-- Arthur KeithSource : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
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You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.
-- Bruce H. LiptonSource : Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com
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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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The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
-- Corliss Lamont -
You are the Creator of your reality... you were granted this ability. You have free will... you are an unlimited aspect, a portion of God... of the Creator... of All That Is.
-- Darryl Anka -
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...
-- David Hume -
New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.
-- David Toop -
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You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.
-- Dean Koontz -
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
-- Edmund Spenser -
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will
-- Elizabeth Wein -
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
-- Francis CrickSource : Francis Crick (1994). “The astonishing hypothesis: the scientific search for the soul”
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No free will of the creature can resist the will of God
-- Girolamo ZanchiSource : Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady, Justus Lipsius (1811). “The doctrine of absolute predestination stated and asserted”, p.75
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
-- Gloria Steinem -
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
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To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.
-- J.R. Ward -
The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do, were it to inhibit or hinder the use of free will in man. . .
-- Jacobus ArminiusSource : Jacobus Arminius (1853). “The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden”, p.488
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The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?
-- John Dryden -
Life calls the tune, we dance.
-- John GalsworthySource : John Galsworthy “Five Tales”, Lulu.com
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We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person
-- John Gerstner -
If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.
-- John Horton Conway -
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
-- John Milton -
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When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
-- John Taylor Gatto -
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.
-- Lewis Black -
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Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.
-- Louis BerkhofSource : Louis Berkhof (1996). “Systematic Theology”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.
-- Malachi Martin -
Submit to the fate of your own free will.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
-- Marvin Minsky -
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.
-- Michael MadsenSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?
-- Peter J. CarrollSource : "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.
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I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
-- Raymond SmullyanSource : Raymond M. Smullyan, Jason Rosenhouse (2014). “Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan”, p.305, Courier Corporation
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Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.
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Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
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LOVE comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school!
-- Rumi -
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You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
-- Sam HarrisSource : Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
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We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
-- Samuel Richardson -
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
-- Scott Adams -
One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.
-- Steve Pavlina -
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But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.
-- Thomas Boston -
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
-- Ugo Betti -
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
-- Willem de Kooning -
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
-- William James -
The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
-- William Shatner -
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.
-- Winston Churchill -
Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.
-- Allen W. Wood -
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I believe in free will.
-- Jessa CrispinSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well.
-- Sinead O'Connor -
You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.
-- George JungSource : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
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Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -
The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.
-- John RosemondSource : John Rosemond (2012). “A Family of Value”, p.210, Andrews McMeel Publishing