Free Will Quotes - Page 20

• Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Philosophical, Character, Choices

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Determinism, Absolutes

  Baruch Spinoza (2002). “Spinoza: The Complete Works”, p.272, Hackett Publishing

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• Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

  Allen W. Wood

  Substance, World, Causes

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.

  Lewis Black

  Interesting

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Grace

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• It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

  Yogi Berra

  Suicide, Possibility, Conundrums

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• No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

  Pope John Paul II

  Independent, Doe, May

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• The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed each one of us with reason, intellect and discrimination, as well as the sovereign free will. Even when our past karma inclines us toward evil, we can consciously tune our inclination towards detachment and ego-free action, thus lightening the karmic load.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Blessed, Past

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• You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Law, Decision, Matter

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• I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will.

  Jemaine Clement

  War, Exercise, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it's harmful against the body, it's against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Tired, Knowing, Law

  "Baseball Legend Tommy Lasorda Remembers Reagan". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2004.

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• I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

  George Jung

  Gold, Earth, Great Experiences

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

  Felix Adler

  Respect, People, Tolerance

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• This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

  Thomas Watson

  Purpose, Crowns, Fallen

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• Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Should, Ideals

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• To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Strikes, Conscience

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(XXX, 387 p.)”, p.13

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• We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

  C. S. Lewis

  Abuse, Weapons, Void

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• Children recognize me from Free Willy (1993), and their parents recognize me from Reservoir Dogs (1992). The kids are, like, "There's Glen!" and the parents are, like, "Don't go near that guy!"

  Michael Madsen

  Dog, Children, Kids

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

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• I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to the core. People want to be masters of their own destinies, but at the same time, I think they do so selectively. Sometimes they want to be told exactly what to do so they don't have to think for themselves - as long as they can still exercise their free will.

  Shepard Fairey

  Exercise, Destiny, Thinking

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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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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• William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s, on Americans' fundamental understandings of their world in a bicentennial year that offered little to celebrate, but also on the longing for heroism and the desire for belief in free will that Graebner believes structured the rise of Reagan-era conservatism. This is a masterful work of cultural history.

  Beth Bailey

  Believe, Struggle, Years

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• You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

  E. J. Gold

  School, Responsibility, Choices

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• I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

  Dean Koontz

  Fall, Sides, Looks

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, War, Hands

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

  Albert Pike

  Effort, Made, Predestined

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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