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Free will Quotes

"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'"

"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice."

"The contradiction between free will and scientific determinism is just an illusion"

"Man is a reasonable being and as such he always continues to act as if he were a free agent though he is in fact otherwise"

"And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice."

"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"

"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"

"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."

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery"

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity"

"I believe in a lot of astrology. I think we have it all mapped out. But that doesn't mean we can't change things."

"We are condemned to be free."

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will"

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