Quotes About Free will

You can't tell this unlimited grand essence how to go about anything. If you do, you are back to trying to do things your way, and naturally it will stop helping you so as to allow you your free will. Instead, can your free will be "Thy will be done"?

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Young man, Destiny is less inexorable than it appears. The resources of the great Ruler of the Universe are not so scanty and so stern as to deny to men the divine privilege of Free Will; all of us can carve out our own way, and God can make our very contradictions harmonize with His solemn ends.

Destiny is less inexorable than it appears. The resources of the great Ruler of the Universe are not so scanty and so stern as to deny to men the divine privilege of Free Will; all of us can carve out our own way, and God can make our very contradictions harmonise with His solemn ends.

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

While external factors may influence our actions, they cannot control them, for that would be to negate free will. To say "what will be, will be" is not to imply that the future is predetermined.

We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.

You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.' 'Are you saying I have no choice?' 'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

That's part of free agency. You can go where you want at the end of the day.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Show me one neuron that has some cellular semblance of free will. And there is no such neuron.

This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether you're going to pick up this or that fork as you begin your meal. There really is none: It's all biology.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.