Quotes About Choice

If I choose to dine with publicans and sinners, that is my business. But I do not choose to break bread with Pharisees.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.

There's precious little choice." "There's always a choice! This one is a choice between 'bad' and 'worse—'which is a difference much more poignant than that between 'good' and 'better.

He knew vaguely that he did not want the nurse to die at that moment, even though it was certainly its right and possibly its obligation to do so.

I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do . . . and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!" "Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. Which is right now.

of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. If it sometimes pains them to make a choice—if the choice turns out to look like a 'noble sacrifice—

But that would have left no choice. This was contradiction; at cusp, choice is. By choice, spirit grows.

His water brother could teach, admonish, guide—but choice at cusp was not shared. Here was "ownership" beyond sale, gift, hypothecation; owner and owned grokked inseparable. He eternally was the action he had taken at cusp. Now that he knew himself

Don't 'Father' me! I can tell a hawk from a handsaw. Anybody can, Grandmother Hazel commented. The Hawk class is a purely commercial type while the Hanshaw runabout is a sport job. Come to think about it, boys, a Hanshaw might be better than a Douglas.

Oh. I told you about that click. Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem. I tried to introduce a change with my bubble gum.

every choice must be paid for.

nobody has ever been able to keep a girl off her back when she decides it's time. When she decides—that's the key to the matter.

Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow

If a table has four legs, which one can you afford to throw away?

The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.

REALITY-LABYRINTH: existence regarded as a multiple-choice intelligence test; the sum total of reality-tunnels available to an open-minded or non-Fundamentalistic human at a given time and place.

In fact, the emphasis on choice and creativity in existentialist-humanist psychology has an exact parallel in the two-hole experiment. Many physicists think the best metaphor to describe that experiment is to say that we create the wave or particle depending on which experimental set-up we choose.

Neither capitalist indust-reality nor socialist indust-reality have been able to give humanity what most of us really want: liberty and justice, freedom and the abolition of poverty, continued growth and continued security. In looking at capitalism vs. socialism, we are always confronted with a dilemma, not a choice.

In existential experienced life, we notice that we are making bets and choices all the time, and are responsible for being alert and aware enough to make them intelligently and to revise them when necessary. We cannot blame everything on The Real Universe, since it is only a model we have created to deal with experienced life. If the model is not good enough, we do not blame it but revise and improve it.

Of course, we all consist of molecules, which consist of atoms, which consist of particles and/or waves and we all remain in various maybe states until we make a choice in the existential sense.

NO "EXTERNAL" SITUATION MAKES A MENTAL STATE "INEVITABLE

Between choices, we evidently return to the maybe state until we make another choice. Existence precedes essence, remember?

We need to realize that the same technology, wisely used by intelligent men and women, can free us from every form of neurotic and irrational rigidity, to dial and focus our nervous systems as easily as we dial or focus our TV, turning any channel or circuit off and on as we choose. This is what metaprogramming (cybernetic) consciousness means.

Words do not equal in space-time the things or events they denote, yet people react to a choice between words as if making a choice between real things or events in the existential world.