Quotes About Choice

I have no choice but to believe in free will" Tomlinson

Try this! throw one stone in the air and think. This stone could only consider itself to be free, if it could forget the hand that hath thrown it. I will share a secret of bob marley and I reasonings with you. Listen, he sang, no chains around my feet, yet I'm not free!. Where, and from whom do you think he got that?

Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)

All those who leave immigrate to better lives, but I wanted to better my death. Maybe it is the ending that matter, not the life, I thought. Maybe we, like elephants, walk towards our chosen burials.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

You must make a decision: Will you drink from the canteen? Or will you take the only water you have seen for days and pour it down the throat of that pump? Will you place your trust in what you can touch and see and hear, or will you have faith in a promise?

But no one is static. No one is not responding to the gospel. Everyone is moving further along one path or the other.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

And I wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, sort of like asking for advice on how to catch a baseball in your teeth or pick all the cheese off your cheeseburger.

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice.

Your destiny is now your own to forge as best as you may.

No matter what we want of life — we have to give up something in order to get it.

Religion in (the US) is so focused on fighting science and these compelling atheist voices that your preachers have lost track of what religion is really about. In... - the Eastern Church - and in Eastern religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, religion isn't there to offer theories or explanation. We accept that the divine is unknowable.....for a lot of rational people..., it's become a choice. Fact or faith. Science or religion....You shouldn't have to choose.

the thing that "makes us human. We have minds. We make our own choices and live by them. We shape our own lives with how we behave towards others.

We feel (God's) presence every time we make a choice. It's something that's inside us.

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The discovery that some actions are not as freely chosen as we may have thought does not take us to the conclusion that no action is freely chosen. Degrees of freedom imply freedom.

Libet's experiment illustrates how the (neuro-)determinist case against freedom is based on a very distorted conception of what constitutes an action in everyday

So it is no surprise that we cannot find free will in this isolated movement in a laboratory, if we treat it as an isolated movement.

We all have a shovel in life. Some of us use it to build a pyramid with a great view, and some dig a hole to nowhere.

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one.

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.