Quotes About Free will

James: I think people pretty much determine their fates. I think people choose their lives. Lucy: I don't know. I think sometimes things happen to people that are beyond their control. Things that they don't want to happen. James: I know what you're saying. Sometimes random shit happens, but for the most part, people are where they are in life because they chose to be there.

Wouldn't it be great if God just blew an air horn in your ear and told you exactly what to do? It's that whole free will business. Gets in my way every time.

Does human nature carry with it a moral structure and a specific end or purpose that remain constant over time and to which we must conform ourselves in order to flourish? Or are we simply the stuff of which we are made and beyond that free to be or do whatever we so choose? Pieces of living playdough attached to a will?

That's what I believe, God exists. God is there. But God doesn't decide what happens here on earth; we do. God gave us free will and we have to use it." ~Zvi

Ignored...was the one unbridgeable gap between physics and any such science of human behavior: the surprises that arise from free will and human creativity...they constitute the most important economic events. For a miracle is simply an innovation, a sudden and bountiful addition of information to the system.

Evil thoughts come free

Thus God calls us, invites us, and even commands us, but God does not control our response. We alone bear responsibility for the choices we make.

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

Reason is also choice.

This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.

Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.

On the chessboard of his godforsaken existence, the pieces were lined up, the play preordained. Man, so many times in life you didn't get to pick your path because the way you went was decided for you. Free will was such bullshit. -Vishous's thoughts

Life was what you determined it to be; regardless of where fate put you, logic and free will meant you could make your cabbage patch anything the fuck you wanted.

A pesar de que poseemos el libre albedrío, el destino absoluto es inmutable. Lo que se supone que debe ocurrir siempre ocurre, de una manera u otra.

Sometimes in life, from out of the myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right—no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.

La vida es lo que tú decides que sea; independientemente de dónde te coloca el destino, la lógica y el libre albedrío significan que cada persona puede hacer lo que quiera con su vida.

Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning and that our free will was, therefore, the highest authority of all.

Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

The will is not free it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect but there is something behind the will which is free