Free Will Quotes - Page 13

• The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.

  Jack Zipes

  Struggle, Compassion, Community

  Jack Zipes (2013). “When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition”, p.1, Routledge

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• 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.

  David Hume

  Liberty, Projects, Metaphysics

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.

  John of Damascus

  Angel, Intelligent, Essence

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• The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

  Corliss Lamont

  Giving, Intuition, Instinct

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• Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

  Dean Cain

  Believe, Decisions We Make, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

  Charles Darwin

  Teaching, Humility, Views

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• Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit... or not.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Mean, Choices

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.14, Hay House, Inc

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• Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.

  H. L. Mencken

  Feet, Shining, May

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Collective Unconscious

  "Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

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• He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Past, Thinking, Interesting

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Rebel, Unjust

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.52, Bantam

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• I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.

  Terry Goodkind

  Children, Fighting, Hands

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.185, Head of Zeus

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• The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Christian, Baby, Hate

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Mean, Loving You

  Letter to Michele Besso, January 6, 1948.

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• You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Growing Up, Sorry

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.131, 谷月社

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• To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

  Frank Herbert

  Dream, Sleep, Wish

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.380, Penguin

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• Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Kissing, First Love

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• People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.

  Lee Child

  Dog, Men, People

  Lee Child (2006). “Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.215, Penguin

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• I believe we all create our paths before we are born to each lifetime, in partnership with a higher presence, the Source.  I also believe, once born, we are given the highest gift of free will.  Intuition is our link between our chosen journey on our life path and our earthly choices using free will.

  Christine Whelan

  Believe, Journey, Choices

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• ...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Confusion, Choices, Misery

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2016). “Krishnamurti's Notebook”, p.162, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd

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• Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Moving, Men

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• The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

  R. C. Sproul

  Views, Choices, Desire

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.191, Hendrickson Publishers

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• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Persistence, Mind

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

  Bobby Sands

  Men, Height, Might

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Stupidity, Pimp

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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