Quotes About Choice

The history of moral feelings is the history of an error, an error called "responsibility", which in turn rests on an error called "freedom of the will".

To live as it pleases me, or not to live at all.

But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands.

This – is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way – does not exist!

To fight upward out of that chaos to this form requires a compulsion: one must be faced with the choice of perishing or prevailing. A dominating race can grow up only out of terrible and violent beginnings.

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

This- is now my way,- where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me the way. For the way- it does not exist!

Men were thought of as 'free' so that they could become guilty: consequently, every action had to be thought of as willed, the origin of every action as lying in the consciousness

Poor. — Today he is poor, not because they have taken everything away from him but because he has thrown everything away. What is that to him? He is used to finding things. It is the poor who misunderstand his voluntary poverty.

All of life is a dispute about tastes.

Ésta es la fórmula de nuestra felicidad: un sí, un no, una línea recta, una meta...

Éste es mi camino, ¿dónde esta el vuestro?», así respondía yo a quienes me preguntaban «por el camino». ¡El camino, en efecto, no existe!

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, "It is my will that the sun shall rise"; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, "I wish it to roll"; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, "Here I lie, but here I wish to lie." But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression "I wish"?

Cualquier camino es solo un camino y no es vergonzoso, ni para uno mismo ni para los demás, abandonarlo si así te lo dicta tu corazón [...] Observa detalladamente cada uno de los caminos. Ponlos a prueba tantas veces como creas necesario. Luego pregúntate a ti mismo, y solo a ti mismo, lo siguiente: «¿Tiene corazón este camino?». Si lo tiene, el camino es bueno; si no lo tiene, no sirve para nada.

Mejor la libertad y una senda helada que un hogar cálido y la servidumbre.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

there are only two philosophies of life: one is first the feast, then the headache; the other is first the fast and then the feast.

Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.

The refusal to love is hell.

another pull on the Bushmills. Shrugged. "I guess they figured

Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we've chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

La mera posibilidad no es todavía una libertad.

I shan't marry a prince!