163 quotes found
“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.”
“I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I'll feel resentful because it...”
“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 wil...”
“Yet our ability to exercise free will and transcend the most extraordinary obstacles does not make the conditions of our life irrelevant. Most of us struggle and often fail to meet the biggest chal...”
“Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete.Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.”
“...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.”
“...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...”
“You are free. The world is yours. got take it.”
“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”
“We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.”
“How can we be free as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We cant.”
“Free Will : "I made you think so."Predestination: "I knew you had to.”
“Free will comes at a price. A price most of us do not know how to pay.”
“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.”
“...we are concluding falsely that we can deduce the justification, the rational admissibility of displeasure, from the fact that it exists; and from this false deduction Schopenhauer arrives at his...”
“You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.”
“[...T]he ways of God have been manifested beyond example: the sea is divided, the cloud has led the way, the rock has poured forth water, it has rained manna, everything has contributed to your gre...”
“Life is the sum of habits, only occasionally disturbed by a thought.”
“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 responsibi...”
“Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism.Many seem to have ab...”
