Free Will Quotes
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But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
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God created a system which gave us freewill.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.
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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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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.
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If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?
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I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.
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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.
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The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.
