Free Will Quotes - Page 11

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

  Michael Madsen

  Wells, Remembered, One Thing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Soul, Make You Smile

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1013, Bantam

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• Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spiritual, War, Luxury

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• I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fate, Hands, Tyrants

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  Rene Dubos

  Struggle, Adventure, Independent

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• God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

  Peter Kreeft

  Earthquakes, Miracle, Agents

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Over You, Moments, Pale

  Mark Twain (2012). “My Autobiography: "Chapters" from the North American Review”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.

  Steve Lawson

  Long, Church, Pagan

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• If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident, I can't think of anything that would meet the definition of being self-evident.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Self, Choices

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• Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Events, Frozen

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Rolling Stones”, p.154, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

  Brad Meltzer

  Challenges, Soul, Battle

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

  John Milton

  Passion, Judgement, Heed

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.124

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• Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

  Robert Breault

  Kids, Destiny

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Two, Collide, Sooner Or Later

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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• When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do in this world, and has equal potential. We are in many varied stages of growth; this is true because we have free will. You have free will as to whether you will finish the mental and emotional growing up. Many choose not to.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Emotional

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• You are not bound. You have got free will. You cannot change the experiences, the results of Prarabdha but you can change your future by right thinking and right action and thus make your will pure and irresistible. You can attain Self-realisatio n with the help of a dynamic will.

  Sivananda

  Thinking, Self, Helping

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• We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Choices, Evolution, Awareness

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

  Louis Sullivan

  Lying, Responsibility, Proud

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• They either attach themselves to God's will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God's will, are justly subjected to what He permits, and sink wretchedly from bad to worse.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Progress, Advancement

  "The homilies".

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• Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Evil, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.

  Tarsem Singh

  White, House, Leader

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• I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

  Vladislav Surkov

  Believe, Expression, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.

  David Toop

  Ideas, New Ideas, Ifs

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• Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Three, Causality

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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