Free Will Quotes

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

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

We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

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.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

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

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

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

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. . .

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

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.

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

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

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

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

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

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

The Bible consistently denies free will.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.

The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

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

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

One thing I've learned that is basic but bears repeating constantly: You are created with free will. Not even the Creator can help you unless you ask for help.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.

Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)

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!

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

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

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.