I’ve been coerced into free will.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was ‘free will’ that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and...

God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but...

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act…

…free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

made-up stories” about oneself and, thus, reality. Because of this quantum factor, we have absolute Free Will to attract optimum realities from infinite, simultaneous Evolutionary Potentials. Thus, according to Kuan Yin, where and how skillfully...

Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were. To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.Because in that journey was where...

A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person oridea. The cults described in this book use violent tactics to recruit,indoctrinate, and keep members. Ritual abuse is defined as...

Free will…it’s all the rage these days

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Stubbornness” is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.

Christianity tells us we have free will. God has provided man with a choice whether to believe in Him or not. If God’s existence were logically inescapable, there would be no free will to choose...

Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law...

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is the mystery. It is whether it has to happen no matter what, whether...

Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with.

The idea of original sin–of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives–inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as...

True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation.

Destiny is variable, not fixed; it is forever changing depending upon your free will to make choices for what you want your life to be.

The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither...

Thought isn’t a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

There is a big park in the middle of the locality. Surrounded by at least 50 houses. That those residents got to live in such a locale is their karma. Do they ever come to...

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but...

No one can tell you for certain if we have free will or we don’t. […] Whatever you choose to believe, you will probably want to agree with the philosopher John Locke, who argued that...

You can’t protect the world from itself, Gina. You can only give good men the tools necessary to do their jobs. We need to know what is possible.

The limit of a person’s will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person’s ability to believe.

He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take...

Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will...

But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in the Sean Carroll workshop on the future of naturalism) that they lean the...

The division in human religion has always been between those who see the fall of man as a fall into freedom and those who see it as an act of defiance against the tyranny of...

A person’s looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we’ve been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That’s the...

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we...

We must believe in free will. We have no choice.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don’t have to worry about the details.

The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

I am a free person.I am free to dream.I am free to pursue my dreams.I am free to love.I am free to serve mankind.

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

You can’t take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can’t really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don’t make...

Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is...