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Free-Will  Quotes
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...

—C.S. Lewis

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EvilFree-WillGood
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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…

—Aristotle

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

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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...

—Hope Bradford

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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...

—Emma Raveling

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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...

—Margaret Smith

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Free will…it’s all the rage these days

—Lauren Kate

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

—Sam Harris

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

—Michelle Cruz-Rosado

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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...

—Stephen McAndrew

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

—Ashim Shanker

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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...

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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

—Ishmael Beah

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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...

—Cornell Woolrich

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

—Haruki Murakami

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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...

—Nathaniel Branden

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

—Ken Poirot

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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.

—Steven Redhead

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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...

—Ted Chiang

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

—Vladimir I.

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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...

—Andy Paula

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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...

—Herman Melville

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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...

—J.W. Ironmonger

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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.

—Dee Henderson

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

—David Kane

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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...

—Milena Michiko

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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...

—Parker J.

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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...

—Sean Carroll

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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...

—R. Joseph

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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...

—Tom Robbins

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ChoiceFree-WillLife
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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

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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...

—Audrey Niffenegger

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

—Isaac Bashevis

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

—Daniel C.

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

—Emma Raveling

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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.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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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.

—John Locke

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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...

—Sam Harris

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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...

—Ravi Ravindra

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This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex...

—Richard Kadrey

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Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own special privilege a certain unique destiny not afforded with equal measure to other...

—Ashim Shanker

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We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.

—James Rozoff

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

—Henry David Thoreau

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You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

—Dean Koontz

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You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

—Leo Tolstoy

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Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

—Neil Gaiman

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Free-Will
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War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.

—Toba Beta

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There is a distinct difference between Darkness and Satan. Darkness is silence, the void, Zen; nothingness. Satan was a pig-headed being who fought to get his way. Wake up! Don’t let him have his way...

—Solange nicole

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So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it...

—Stanisław Lem

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