Quotes About Freewill

Life is an expression of the choices we make.

Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.

Platón afirmaba que «cada uno es la causa de su propia elección»; y

The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.

This is your decision, Fireheart. No cat can make it for you.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

If you want to head for hell by way of smoking weed or opium, or by drinking, or by being dim enough to call a giant names to his face, go head. Enjoy the slide. I won't get in your way. Nope. I won't hand you a bucket of grease, either. You've got to do it on your own.

People don't want to be told to do right. They don't really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it's not fair, it's not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.

Either our actions are determined, in which case we are not responsible for them, or they are random, in which case we are not responsible for them.

A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger. (p. 62)

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

That language comes from a basic paradigm of determinism. And the whole spirit of it is the transfer of responsibility. I am not responsible, not able to choose my response.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law. They are out in the Circle of Concern.

The purpose of life, Cirrus Kindwind had once assured him, is to choose, and to act upon the choice.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do." —Pete Cassidy

gaze steadily. "This is your decision, Fireheart. No cat can make it for you.

I am not for imposing any sense on your words: you are at liberty to explain them as you please. Only, I beseech you, make me understand something by them.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

After all, we do seem attached to sin and there are so many people busy making sin unattractive. It is good to find someone who takes the other road.