Free Will Quotes - Page 15

• I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Dog, Hate, Race

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Castle in the Air”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

  Jean Webster

  Believe, Moving, Mountain

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.93, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always included attacks on individual responsibility. For if individuals do not have free will, and are not responsible for their actions, then their lives must be controlled somehow - preferably by the state - according to the socialists. They must be regulated, regimented and controlled - for their own good.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Responsibility, Denial, Action

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• Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering through my sheer joy in all that is beautiful, a sense of its creator . . . Only man can be truly ugly, because he has the free will to estrange himself from this song of praise. It often seems that he'll manage to drown out this hymn with his cannon thunder, curses and blasphemy. But during this past spring it has dawned upon me that he won't be able to do this. And so I want to try and throw myself on the side of the victor.

  Sophie Scholl

  Beautiful, Song, Spring

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Believe, Government, Illusion

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• I believe in free will. I have no choice.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Choices, I Believe

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• It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

  Saint Augustine

  Intellectual, Wish, Misery

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• [Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Spurs, Research

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• Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

  Gary Kinnaman

  Angel, Men, Play

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way... But you... You showed me the right way... I was always chasing you... Wanting to overtake you... I just wanted to walk with you... I wanted to be with you... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I - Love You.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Giving Up, Selfish, Love You

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• I do belive in fate. It's hard to accept that it's maybe not possible to change anything and I don't really like the thought of not having free will. I like thinking myself as an individual human being who can decide what he wants, but I think it's fascinating and interesting to think about if you have free will or not. Maybe your body decides something for you, your body is hungry and you decide to eat something, so is it free will or not? You don't know.

  Louis Hofmann

  Fate, Thinking, Interesting

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• A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Journey, Als, Way

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• If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

  Esther Hicks

  Differences, Doe, Want

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• I believe in free will.

  Jessa Crispin

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not there to impose my religious beliefs on anybody, or say 'this is the only way you should think'. It's up to you to decide, and God is a God of free will.

  Robert Hood

  Religious, Thinking, Up To You

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Loss, Rights, Empathy

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• If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.

  Ken Wilber

  Blow, Soul, Humanity

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• Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Ideas, Decision

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Many people have criticized Islam for being just automatic, having no individuality, just surrendering your will to God, but we Muslims know very well that every moment of the day we have to practice the fact that to surrender one's self to God is an act of free will.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Self, Practice, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Philosophy, Mind

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• Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

  David W Augsburger

  Chocolate, Doe, Sense Of Humor

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• Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.

  Zoe Helene

  Loyalty, Mother, Running

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

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Boredom, Reason

  "God Emperor of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1981.

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• If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get."

  Nancy Pearcey

  Law, People, Determined

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

  Susan Cain

  Personality, Brain, Important

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