Quotes About Choice

His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that control, there is not possibility of attaining grace. In the language of Christianity, a beliver cannot be saved unless the choice to follow Christ is freely made, unless the option not to follow him genuinely exists. Compelled belief is no belief at all.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss.

God foreknows the use of free will, yet this foreknowledge does not determine events. Rather, what God foreknows is determined by what happens, part of which is affected by free will.

When it comes to personal consciousness evolution, doing nothing or making a minimal effort is an intentional choice that, as any choice, produces consequences. In this game there are no spectators or bystanders – innocent or otherwise.

Be not a slave of words.

So here hath been dawningAnother blue Day:Think wilt thou let itSlip useless away.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ

The Universe itself is a Monarchy and Hierarchy; large liberty of "voting" there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with conditions inexorable and immeasurable annexed to every exercise of the same. A most free commonwealth of "voters;" but with Eternal Justice to preside over it, Eternal Justice enforced by Almighty Power!

In so-called moral decisions, emotion always trumps reason.

Kendi özgür irademize inanmak zorunday?z, aksi durumda ahlâki sorumlulu?umuza inanmak için temelimiz kalmaz, o zaman da ahlâki seçimlerimizin denetimimiz d???nda oldu?unu kabul etmek zorunda kal?r?z

Sartre'?n "Varolu? özden önce gelir" deyi?i insanlar?n, mesela bir elbise ask?s?n?n ki gibi önceden belirlenmi? bir özü bulunmad??? anlam?na gelir. Yani bizler belirlenmemi?izdir ve kendimizi yeniden yaratmakta özgürüzdür.

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

The world is becoming more global. More than ever, people are proactively deciding where to live, where to study, where to work. Sometimes it's out of necessity, sometimes it's out of choice.

As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.