613 Quotes About Free-will

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

The true free-will ain't a matter of choosing one of many choices...but of creating variety of options, then deciding the best choice of all.

Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.

Yes I have free will; I have no choice but to have it.

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

Hard to grasp democracy without free will.

We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response . . . mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.