Quotes About Choice

Some people... SOME PEOPLE like cupcakes better (but) I for one, could care LESS for them!

But there's another way to describe the convenience of the machine: It is the surrender of free will—algorithms make choices for us.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

They were given the choice of becoming kings or the king's messengers. As is the way with children, they all wanted to be messengers. That is why there are only messengers, racing through the world and, since there are no kings, calling out to each other the messages that have now become meaningless.

It's often better to be in chains than to be free.

Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it is free since it can choose the pace, but it is also unfree since you must go through the desert, unfree since every path in labyrinthine manner touches every foot of the desert's surface.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

La comparación del pájaro en mano y ciento volando sólo se puede aplicar aquí muy relativamente. En la mano no tengo nada, volando está todo y sin embargo -así lo determinan las condiciones del combate y las necesidades de la vida- tengo que elegir la nada.

His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Yes, the wardrobe. It will probably be the object of our first and last fight. I'll say: 'Let's throw it out.' You'll say: 'It must stay.' I'll say: 'Choose between it and me.' You'll say: 'At once. Frank and Schrank, they rhyme. I choose the wardrobe.' 'Good,' I'll say, and slowly descend the stairs (which?) and - if I haven't found the Danube canal, I'll still be alive today.

Tens inteira liberdade de te absteres dos sofrimentos do mundo, isso corresponde à tua natureza; mas talvez o facto de te absteres seja o único sofrimento que possas evitar

First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he wishes, the entrance to the Law alone is denied to him, and this only by one person, the doorkeeper. If he sits on the stool at the side of the door and spends the rest of his life there, he does so of his own free will; the story mentions no element of force.

U ruci nemam ništa, na krovu je sve, a ipak moram izabrati ništa. Tako odre?uju borbeni odnosi i životna potreba.

Pues son las circunstancias; el hecho de que a uno le guste o no una cosa no siempre es lo decisivo. Por

it's often better to be in chains than to be free.

Those who choose to despise us find themselves in the best company.

En de man is werkelijk vrij, hij kan gaan en staan waar hij wil, alleen de toegang tot de wet is hem verboden en dat dan nog door één enkeling, door de poortwachter.

The simile of the bird in the hand and the two in the bush has only a very remote application here. In my hand I have nothing, in the bush is everything, and yet—so it is decided by the conditions of battle and the exigency of life—I must choose the nothing.

I've forgotten to ask you what kind of acquittal you want. There are three possibilities: actual acquittal, apparent acquittal, and prolongation.

Two alternatives: either to make oneself infinitesimally small, or to be so. The former is perfection and hence inaction; the latter a beginning and therefore action.

Der Vergleich von dem Sperling in der Hand und der Taube auf dem Dach paßt hier nur sehr entfernt. In der Hand habe ich nichts, auf dem Dach ist alles und doch muß ich –so entscheiden es die Kampfverhältnisse und die Lebensnot– das Nicht wählen.

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