Quotes About Choice

Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak are the unlucky, and the stupid.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the true extent of their need.

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid. Any will do, the rabbi replied in Provençal. Splendid. Latin it is, said Pope Clement.

Just because your choice is predetermined does not mean you do not have a free choice before you take it (516)

Perhaps, after all, the right man was better than the right machine.

I decided on moustaches.

Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.

As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you're not free to choose your desires.

So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.

He's weak and ignorant, scared of the way consequences of an action leap away from your control and breed new events, new consequences, until you're led to a place you never dreamed of and would never choose - a knife at the throat.

hung-over groan, the elective malady's melody.

Without a specific destination, the visitors chose routes as they might choose a colour, and even the precise manner in which they became lost expressed their cumulative choices, their will.

Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you're not free to choose your desires.

As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you're

Era stanca di stare all'aperto, ma non aveva voglia di rientrare. Tutta qui, la scelta che offriva la vita, star dentro o star fuori? Possibile che la gente non potesse andare anche altrove?

Se consideraban demasiado complejos para creer en el destino, pero les seguía pareciendo una paradoja que un encuentro tan trascendental hubiera sido fortuito, tan dependiente de cien sucesos y elecciones nimios. Qué posibilidad tan aterradora que pudiera no haberse producido nunca.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

In one lifetime it wouldn't be possible to find another woman with whom he can learn to be so free, whom he can please with such abandon and expertise. By some accident of character, it's familiarity that excites him more than sexual novelty. He supects there's something numbed or deficient or timid in himself (...) [M]ight look like virtue or doggedness, but it's neither of these because he exercises no real choice. This is what he has to have: possession, belonging, repetition.

Without a specific destination, the visitors chose routes as they might choose a colour

all citizens deserve the regime they are willing to endure…

There are some decisions, even moral ones, that are formed in regions below conscious thought.

Good decisions came less through rational calculation, more from sudden good moods. But so too did some of his worst decisions.