Free Will Quotations

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.

That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

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

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man-break the fetters!

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

I believe in free will. I have no choice.

I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

... love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.

For free will is what makes us Heaven's creatures.

The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.

Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)

A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.

The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

Free will is an empty term.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well.

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.

If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

The greatest gift God gave us is also our greatest curse, which is the free will. We are made in God's image, the Bible says, which means we have the ability to love him or not love him, to reject him or not reject him.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

LOVE comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school!

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.