Free Will Quotes - Page 19

• No free will of the creature can resist the will of God

  Girolamo Zanchi

  Gods Will, Creatures

  Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady, Justus Lipsius (1811). “The doctrine of absolute predestination stated and asserted”, p.75

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• What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.

  Thomas Bradwardine

  Fighting, Hands, Grace

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• The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

  Francis Turretin

  Father, Mean, Self

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• The Bible puts forth a strong case for no free will and that's a real problem you know, because the justification for supposedly being punished after death is that you had free will. If you didn't have free will and you did what God predetermined, then how can he punish you?"

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Strong, Real, Problem

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Eye, Past, Data

  Oeuvres vol. 7, introduction (1812 - 1820)

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• I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed with thought, and two to believe, first that of an existence called spirit, of which we have neither evidence nor idea, and then secondly how that spirit, which has neither extension nor solidity, can put material organs into motion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Ideas, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.153

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• This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this is what such doctrine tends to. All who have never been deeply convicted of sin, all persons in whom this conviction is based on gross external sins, believe more or less in freewill

  John Nelson Darby

  Believe, Men, Support

  John Nelson Darby (1881). “Letters by J.N.D., 1849-1875; extracts tr. from the French”

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• If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Slaughterhouse Five, Earth

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Given, Truthfulness

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Ideas, Honor, Rooms

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

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• Free will...it's all the rage these days

  Lauren Kate

  Rage, These Days

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• "We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun.".

  Kim Harrison

  Fun, Night, Risk

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• I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t vote him to be in charge.

  Rachel Caine

  Rights, Towns, Vote

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• If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.

  Mark Helprin

  Simple, Answers, Determined

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

  Elizabeth Wein

  Rooms, Glory, Chosen

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

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• I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Relationship, Girlfriend, House

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.604, Scholastic Inc.

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• I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Kindness, Believe, Names

  Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century

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• It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

  Haruki Murakami

  Men, Thinking, Choices

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• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  Rumi

  Moving, Wind, Lightning

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• This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

  Neal Stephenson

  Two, Mind, Labyrinth

  Neal Stephenson (2014). “The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World”, p.214, Harper Collins

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• I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

  John Perkins

  Fate, Exercise, Choices

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Fate, Hands, Grace

  Yasmine Galenorn (2006). “Witchling: An Otherworld Novel”, p.274, Penguin

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• And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

  Anne Rice

  Fall, Wings, What If

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• La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."

  Michael Glawogger

  Girl, Mother, Real

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

  Allen W. Wood

  Self, Determined, Reason

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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