Free will Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Free will.
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“Freethought”
“Determinism”
“Agency theory”
“Freedom of thought”
“My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”
“Dieser yrthum von freyen willen ist eyn eygen Artickel des Endchrist.”
“Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.”
“Wikipedia: Free will”
“Heaven weeps, but free will is sacred. The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.”
“Wiktionary: Free will”
“I said: “Then in reality I had little choice.”
“Let us say that your character has already determined your choice.””
“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!”
“Martin Luther On the Bondage of the Will (1525) Pg. 270”
“Martin Luther On the Bondage of the Will (1525) Pg. 217”
“Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.”
“If man were not free, then he could not conceive of causality at all, and could not form any concept of it. Insight into lawfulness is already freedom from it.”
“Endowed with a spiritual soul, with intellect and with free will, the human person is from his very conception ordered to God and destined for eternal beatitude.”
“Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self preservation?”
“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.”
“What we really mean by free will... is the visualizing of alternatives and making a choice between them. ...the central problem of human consciousness depends on this ability to imagine.”