Quotes About Choice

Human infants are semi-robots who possess, however, a limited though vigorous free will. Some of them become adults who use free will as much as possible. But the majority use their free will only once in their lives, that is, at the moment they unconsciously decide they won't ever use their free will.

Emigrate or Degenerate.

But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

Send that, he told her. Sign it, et cetera. Work the sentences, if you wish, so that they will mean something. As she started from the office he added, Or so that they mean nothing. Whichever you prefer.

So we must presume that the worst, rather than the best, choice will be made. The sober and responsible elements will be defeated in the present clash.

What a great burden, the luxury of the way we live. Since no one makes suffer we have elected to volunteer.

I chose God over the material universe.

Better a live dog than a dead prince

Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point.

What do you want? Egg in your beer?

We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

We have no value, she said to herself. We can live out our tiny lives. If we want to. If it matters to us.

Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point. And eventually we choose it, in spite of ourselves. Or we give up and take it deliberately.

We have no value, she said to herself. We can live out our tiny lives. If we want to. If it matters to us. From

If you intend to kill yourself you don't require a reason, in the usual sense of the term; just as, to contrary, when you intend to stay alive, no verbal, articulated, formal reason is necessary, one you can seize on if the issue comes up.

I see a lot I like. It's the cost that bothers me.

A MAN IS AN angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they—all of them—had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man.

The difference between Gloria Knudson and Sherri was obvious; Gloria wanted to die for strictly imaginary reasons. Sherri would literally die whether she wanted to or not. Gloria had the option to cease playing her malignant death-game any time she psychologically wished, but Sherri did not.

O s? cred ce vreau eu s? cred, iar tu crezi ce vrei. De acord?

I'll give you my answer when I've decided.

O pior aspecto do suicídio é que você decide fazer isso e não dá para desistir e mudar de ideia. Como essas pessoas que tentam se matar com o escapamento do carro e viram um vegetal. Alguém as tira de lá e as salva, mas elas destruíram todos os neurônios por causa do monóxido de carbono.

Even the most base schemes of human beings are preferable to the most exalted tropisms of machines.

What work do I have to do then? said Will, but went on at once, No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.