Free Will Quotes - Page 21

• It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no nudity and no body doubles... I admire actresses who can do it without feeling exploited. As long as it's their own free will, I think it's great. It's not a moral judgement, I've just never felt comfortable doing it - I'm too modest.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Dirty, Thinking, Moral Judgement

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• It was like the first time I'd ever seen Hollywood just really not do the right thing. We filmed Free Willy in Mexico. I'd come in a really nice car from my hotel, and we'd have to drive around all the crew that was sleeping in the parking lot. People making their breakfast on the ground. It was because there was a whale there that was in a little tank. It just felt gross. It felt really bad. They didn't free that whale for, damn... at least 10 years later. The poor whale had horrible psoriasis all over him, and his fin didn't work.

  Lori Petty

  Nice, Sleep, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Essence, Profit, Motive

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you don't ask for their help, your angels still are with you and continuously sending you pure, unconditional love. If there's a situation where your life is endangered before it's your time to go, they will do their very best to warn and protect you. Still, usually your free will is involved. They will scream at you, "Change lanes right now!" or "Go check on the baby!" But you have to participate in the dance of having your prayers answered.

  Doreen Virtue

  Baby, Prayer, Angel

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The angels and the archangels will help you with world peace to the degree it affects you. But they have to honor everyone's free will - including the will of people who like to use weapons or to give orders to soldiers. They cannot usurp such people's free will. Say to the angels, "I affirm or ask for world peace to the degree it affects me." Think of the world as an array of intersecting circles. The part of the world with the intersecting circle that has you in it is what the angels can and will help with.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Thinking, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is insoluble.

  Allen W. Wood

  Views, Order, Problem

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.

  Nicole Richie

  Different, Timing, Individual

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.

  Bob Shacochis

  Art, Children, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Command Not, Evil

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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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• It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Freedom, Order, Volition

  Harry G. Frankfurt (1988). “The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.

  Ricky Gervais

  Sports, Fun, Beer

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• It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

  Lord Kelvin

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

  "The Life of Lord Kelvin, Volume 2" by Silvanus Phillips, (2005 edition, p. 1093), 1910.

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• It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, People, Saint

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• Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

  Thomas Boston

  Grace, Misery

  "Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravity, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery".

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• If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

  Peter J. Carroll

  Claims, Asks, Ifs

  "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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• When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Children, Rooms, Becoming

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.13, Book Publishing Company

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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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• Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Karma, Fate, Destiny

  Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.38, Himalayan Academy Publications

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• Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Rain, Destiny, Life Is

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• The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even Cobra poison can be used as medicine.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Medicine, Poison, Coins

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• It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ. It is His will that we reach out for our inheritance, that we answer His call to be His sons. We are born men without our consent, but the consent to be sons of God has to be elicited by our own free will.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Son, Men

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• God is never at a loss because He cannot find someone to cooperate with Him in carrying out His plan. He so moves in the hearts of people - either Christians or non Christians, it makes no difference - that they willingly, of their own free will carry out His plans.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Moving, Heart

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.66, NavPress

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• If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Giving, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Joy, Goodness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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