Free Will Quotes

"And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice." "Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief." "Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity" "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." "Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past" "We are our choices." "I guess destiny isn't the path given to us, but the path we choose for ourselves" "The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve as the instrument of their decay." "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." "Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices." "There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way'" "Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will" "I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men" "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills" "What is a man without desires, without Free Will " "I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny." "A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants" "As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." "Belief in free will is ubiquitous but problematic." "In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause which is likewise determined by another cause and this last by another and so on to infinity"