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Free-Will  Quotes
I’ve been coerced into free will.

—Brian Spellman

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DeterminismFateFree-Will
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

—Aldous Huxley

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Free-WillLunchOptimism
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We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It’s not about being right or wrong; it’s about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be...

—DeiAmor Verus

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DestinyFree-WillHuman-Nature
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Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance, they have used Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to bolster up human free will, though...

—Heisenberg

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DangerousDeterminismFree-Will
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the “free will”...

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Free-WillTheory
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Channelling is your higher self streaming through in a version your limited mind can accept. There is no such thing as a separate entity, only the perception of it. You are all of it!

—Erin Fall

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ChannelChannellingFree-Will
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories...

—Larry Wall

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With every sunrise, we get to choose … who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the gods have given us. We can’t always choose our circumstances. No. The Fates...

—Nicole Y.

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Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the...

—Richelle E.

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AgencyChoicesConclusion
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It’s the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it does not possess free will. Free will, however, is FREE. And just by...

—Robert Sheckley

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Free-WillHypocrisyReligion
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No attempt should be made to “reconcile” Yahweh’s hardening of Pharaoh’s heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart.The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by...

—Peter Enns

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What is a woman’s place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin’s words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to...

—Brandon Sanderson

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ChoiceFree-WillFreedom
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We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses–one foot is on the horse called “fate,” the other on the horse called “free will.” And the question you have to...

—Elizabeth Gilbert

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The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

—J.S.B. Morse

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BeliefChoiceChristian
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…if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices – that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they...

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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ChoiceFree-Will
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So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God’s giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever...

—John Piper

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L’homme ne peut jamais savoir ce qu’il faut vouloir car il n’a qu’une vie et il ne peut ni la comparer à des vies antérieures ni la rectifier dans des vies ultérieures. (…) Il n’existe...

—Milan Kundera

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Free-WillLiving
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The answer to the question raised in the title of this essay – Is salvation a matter of divine determination or human responsibility? – is not divine determination or human responsibility. The only thoroughly biblical...

—Layton Talbert

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ElectionFree-Will
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Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this...

—Raheel Farooq

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We will ensure a place for you in heaven, but we will make this place a hell.” Religious exploiters”Follow us for a greater economy and other superficial dreams, and we will make sure it never...

—Saurabh Sharma

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It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our spouses were not going to show up out of the blue. It was...

—Steven L.

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The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

—C.S. Lewis

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Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

—Anthon St. Maarten

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There may not be any romance to mental illness but who needs romance when the preferable route is agency? The prevailing conversation around mental health issues is agency and the lack thereof on the part...

—Diriye Osman

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There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen: karma and free will. The question is, ‘how are you...

—Hope Bradford

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Free-WillGuan-YinKarma
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This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given…

—Dianna Hardy

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ChoiceChoices-And-ConsequencesChoosing
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Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

—Matt Ridley

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BehaviorFree-WillGenes
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Take the Holocaust for example: Why did God allow Hitler to kill millions of innocent Jews? Because God didn’t want to step on Hitler’s toes and interfere with his free will? That’s a pretty lame...

—Oliver Markus

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The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely...

—Sam Harris

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ChristianityFree-WillGod
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Our fated untainted soul gives us free reign, only doth backward pull our clouded minds when we ourselves falsely protect from pain.

—Truth Devour

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BeliefFree-WillLife-Lessons
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[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

—Robin McKinley

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Every day is a blank canvas to use our free will to create something beautiful for our Creator.

—Alisa Hope Wagner

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God’s greatest gift to manIn all the bounty He was moved to makeThroughout creation-the one gift the mostClose to his goodness and the one He callsMost precious-is free will.

—Dante Alighieri

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Free-Will
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There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.

—Daryl Gregory

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To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in favour of my sentiments. A rich man bestows, on a poor and famishing...

—James Arminius

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I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these – how we exercise what some refer to as free will – is everything; the choices...

—John Perkins

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Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories.

—Lionel Suggs

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ChoiceCreationFree-Will
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Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy...

—Lawren Leo

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Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

—Roger Zelazny

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Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I...

—Ted Chiang

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Nič ni resnično, vse je dovoljeno.

—Vladimir Bartol

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Free-WillIllusion
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Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.

—Amy Neftzger

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ChoiceChoicesDestiny
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You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That’s the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

—Elizabeth Gilbert

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Free-WillLife
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The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.

—J.S.B. Morse

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BeliefBelieversChristian
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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

—Decimus Junius

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FateFree-Will
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Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen’s inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi once called the ‘grey zone’ of human affairs, described by the historian Christopher...

—Erna Paris

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ComplexityFree-WillJustice
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En travaux pratiques de physique, n’importe quel collégien peut faire des expériences pour vérifier l’exactitude d’une hypothèse scientifique. Mais l’homme, parce qu’il n’a qu’une seule vie, n’a aucune possibilité de vérifier l’hypothèse par l’expérience de...

—Milan Kundera

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Free-WillLiving
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No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the...

—Pope John

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Free-WillPhilosophyRelationship
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The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

—Peter Watts

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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It’s almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

—Ugo Betti

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