Quotes About Choice

But what I do I do because I like to do.

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

What's it going to be then, eh?

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

se esfuma tu capacidad de llevar una existencia alegre, despreocupada y serena. Comprueba cuán verdadero es esto si lo aplicas al apego que has elegido.

Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?" He says, "Not in years. But today. Today maybe I did.

Am I following a path already laid out for me, or am I making it myself?

This was a life, this was how people chose to live? Somewhere inside she could feel winds dying, the gales of her youth stifled. She was learning that in her life everything— health, happiness, even love—was subject to the landscape; the weathers of the world were inseparable from the weathers of her soul.

To select one word was to commit to a single path when the maze contains thousands.

Cuando perdí la vista, Werner, la gente me decía que era valiente. Cuando mi padre se marchó, la gente me dijo que era valiente. Pero no se trata de valentía, es que no tengo otra opción. Me despierto y vivo mi vida, ¿acaso no haces tú lo mismo?

Te parece correcto —le pregunta— hacer algo solo porque todo el mundo lo hace?

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?

that a thousand choices were implicit in a single moment.

Gone or resolved to go; is there much difference?

people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

É certo — pergunta Jutta — fazer algo apenas porque todas as outras pessoas estão fazendo?

Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

cost-benefit analysis.