613 Quotes About Free-will

Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism.Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.

In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.

You’ve followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own free will?

الإرادة سِرٌ من قوة الفعل والعمل فكيف لو ينمى لها أجنحة .

In discussions about free will, a lot of people say that for an action of yours to be freely chosen - for you to bear moral responsibility for that action - you must have had the ability to do something else under exactly the same circumstances.

God does not tell us what to do. He shows us the light. If we follow it, it is up to us.

Self is free but wills companionship.

In my preface, I quoted an e-mail message from someone who was upset by the news that neuroscientists had shown that free will is an illusion. She was, she said, “in a lot of despair.” My final moral is the title of a song: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Scientists have not shown this. Nor has anyone shown that there are no effective intentions. This is good news for just about everyone.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.