Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.
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.
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.
I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.
We must believe in free will - we have no choice.
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.
Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
Free will is something that people struggle with so much, but it's very simple to me. Carl Jung said at the same moment you're a protagonist in your own life making choices, you also are the spear carrier, or the extra, in a much larger drama. You've got to live with these two opposite ideas at the same time.
Life calls the tune, we dance.
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