Free Will Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

  Francis Crick

  Francis Crick (1994). “The astonishing hypothesis: the scientific search for the soul”

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• It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?

  Steven Weinberg

  Cancer, Opportunity, Order

  Steven Weinberg (2001). “Facing Up”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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

  Shane Barbi

  Compassion, Drawing, Empathy

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• Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

  Martin Luther

  Freedom, House, Cows

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• That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

  Alfred Bester

  Robots, Reactions, Said

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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

  John Horton Conway

  Particles, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Perfect, Acting

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• Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

  Robert Breault

  Reflexes, Mankind, Creatures

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• There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Doe, Watches, Variables

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

  Wayne Dyer

  Intention, Partners, Paradoxical

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.15, Hay House, Inc

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• Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

  Voltaire

  Destiny, Law, People

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• Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Choices, Religion

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