Free Will Quotes - Page 6

• Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

  Malachi Martin

  Law, Liberty

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• True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.

  Shane Barbi

  Compassion, Drawing, Empathy

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• We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Decision, Neurons, Driving

  "The Electric Brain". Interview with Lauren Aguirre, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.

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• All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Scripture, Helping

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• Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

  Herman Melville

  Identity, Gone, Defined

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.239

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• I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Grace, Length

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• A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Men, Natural

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.128

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• Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Two, Four

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• Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Grace, Sin

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• I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Biology, Comfortable

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• If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

  John Horton Conway

  Particles, Ifs

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• The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do, were it to inhibit or hinder the use of free will in man. . .

  Jacobus Arminius

  Men, Use, Creation

  Jacobus Arminius (1853). “The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden”, p.488

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• A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

  Colleen Houck

  Wise, Pain, Men

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.477, Hachette UK

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• I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

  Mario Bunge

  Believe, Support, Brain

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

  Halldór Laxness

  Men, Break, Fetters

  "World Light" by Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Three: The House of the Poet), 2002.

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• I think we have a free will, and at the same moment we don't. We have to live with that. It doesn't make sense intellectually, but that's because our intellect is always trying to come up with a logical, rational explanation for things. To do that, it puts labels on things. But once you label something, you've got twoness. You've got the label, and you've got what you're labeling. And there is only oneness in the universe, even though we artificially believe in twoness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Thinking, Oneness

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• In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Judging, Mistress

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• Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

  James Lileks

  Heart, People, Contempt

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• I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Fate, Sides

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

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• Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.

  Ruben Papian

  Destiny, Thinking, Elements

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• Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

  Mary Esther Harding

  Men, Choices

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• We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

  R. C. Sproul

  Giving Up, Doe, Able

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 1: The Holiness of God / Chosen by God”, p.364, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Reality, Thinking, Want

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  You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

  Sam Harris

  Can Do

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Miracle, Survival

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.315, Scholastic Inc.

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