Quotes About Free will

because love can come, if you believe in it and behave as if it exists. That was the case, too, with free will; with perhaps, fath of any sort; and love was a sort of faith, was it not?

We could do as you suggest. We could coerce civilizations. Actively mold them. But our creator doesn't believe this is our place. Our creator believes in the principal of self-determination. Of choice—free will.

If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

My investigations revealed that, whatever their beginnings, angels have three basic purposes: to worship God, to serve as heralds between God and his people on the earth, and to act as our caretakers while never interfering with our free will.

Human beings had been created with a free will that made them choose to be one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. These days, unfortunately, more and more people seemed to be taking the low road.

God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good.

We imagine we are free agents, but possibly do not realize how steadily Fate moves us along the road we think we have chosen.

Jeder Mensch bekommt eine bestimmte Zeit im Kontinuum der Menschheitsgeschichte und jeder bekommt seine Herkunft und bestimmte Eigenschaften vererbt, die alles bestimmen, jedenfalls fast alles, was er sein wird. Mit dem Rest freien Willens kann er sich ein Leben lang herumraufen und versuchen, ihm seinen unverwechselbaren Stempel aufzudrücken und sich von der Hypothek seiner beschädigten Eltern zu befreien.

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever - people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality.

Very well, you possess free will; but now you must use your free will to enslave yourself to God and to us.

free will is an illusion, brought to us by evolution. All the things we are commonly blamed or praised for—ranging from murder to theft to Darwin's eminently Victorian politeness—are the result not of choices made by some immaterial "I" but of physical necessity. "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything," Darwin wrote in his notes. "[N]or ought one to blame others.

The truth depends on what we say the truth is. If men are told that the impulse to philander is deeply "natural," essentially irrepressible, then the impulse—for those men, at least— may indeed be so. In Darwin's day, though, men were told something else: that animal impulses are formidable foes but can, with constant and arduous effort, be defeated. This then became, for many men, the truth. Free will was, in an important sense, created by their belief in it.

It's up to you." He reached across the front seat and grabbed her hand. "It's always up to you." He drew her hand to his lips and pressed a soft kiss into her palm.

I have had another thought on such fates that denies neither gods nor man. Perhaps, instead of controlling every step, the gods have started a hundred or a thousand Cazarils and Umegats down this road, and only those arrive who choose to.

The free will of the door, as it were. All doors opened in both directions. She could not open the gate of herself a crack and peek out, and expect to still hold the fortress.

Is a man ruled by his own free will, or is he a composite of all his experiences, his education and heredity?

If behaving as thought we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult to god, who gave us voices but does not wish us to sing, who gave us free will, rai, but prefers us not to be free.