Quotes and Sayings 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?
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
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 Bester -
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 -
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 Keith -
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 -
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. Lipton -
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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 -
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 Crick -
No free will of the creature can resist the will of God
-- Girolamo Zanchi -
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 -
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 Arminius