Best 473 quotes in «free will quotes» category

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

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.

Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)

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.

A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.

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.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

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.

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always included attacks on individual responsibility. For if individuals do not have free will, and are not responsible for their actions, then their lives must be controlled somehow - preferably by the state - according to the socialists. They must be regulated, regimented and controlled - for their own good.

Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

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?

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.

If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer - because there seems to be no part of the machinery that does not follow in a causal relationship from the other parts.

It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

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" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

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.

[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.

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.

... love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.

New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

No free will of the creature can resist the will of God

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.