Quotes About Choice

Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

WHICH way should the balance swing? Assuming that we want to maintain a coherent ethical position on these matters, this appears to be a circumstance of forced choice: if we are willing to drop bombs, or even risk that pistol rounds might go astray, we should be willing to torture a certain class of criminal suspects and military prisoners; if we are unwilling to torture, we should be unwilling to wage modern war.

Despite our attachment to notions of free will, most us know that disorders of the brain can trump the best intentions of the mind.

One fact now seems indisputable: Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next—a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please—your brain has already determined what you will do.

Am I free to change my mind? Of course not. It can only change me.

However, to say that I could have done otherwise is merely to think the thought "I could have done otherwise" after doing whatever I in fact did. This is an empty affirmation.

I cannot decide what I will next think or intend until a thought or intention arises. What will my next mental state be? I do not know—it just happens. Where is the freedom in that?

To say that someone freely chose to squander his life's savings at the poker table is to say that he had every opportunity to do otherwise and that nothing about what he did was inadvertent.

Free will is an illusion.

It solves the problem of "free will" by ignoring it. How can we be "free" as conscious agents if everything

Without free will, sinners and criminals would be nothing more than poorly calibrated clockwork

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God.

It can be the most difficult thing to do, but love conquers fear and love conquers hate and this love that you choose will give you strength and it's our greatest power.

Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.