163 quotes found
“If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.”
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.”
“If I hadnt spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldnt have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I...”
“It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.”
“Kuan Yin is showing me picture of a windsurfer skimming effortlessly along the ocean's surface," describes Ms. Lees. "While quite skilled, he is nevertheless very focused on the elements around him...”
“Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way to let Happiness happen in your life in Abundance!”
“The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?”
“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 a lot o...”
“We employ free will to design of our own being and therefore we must accept responsibility for our actions.”
“Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.”
“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he has learnt to be fulfilled.But learning just as certainly tha...”
“A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.”
“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 rare for a human being to ...”
“He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation”
“The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is only an illusion. But it is an illusion which is one of the strongest motives of my actions. Bef...”
“When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to hold violence, you are strong enough to hold true to your pact. Then you have more m...”
“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
“The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...”
“There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own ”
“Where theres no free will, theres no sin.”
