613 Quotes About Free-will

Could the completed life course of such a man turn out in any respect, even the smallest, in any happening, any scene, differently from the way it did? – No! is the consistent and correct answer.

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.

A philosopher who denies free will is like an astronomer who denies the stars.

Freedom doesn’t exist in a vacuum. No one is free to disobey the laws of existence. Our freedom is the freedom to pursue our will to power as we see fit. Yet will to power is actually – when viewed from the outside rather than inside – a mathematical drive to establish perfect symmetry, to restore the symmetry that was broken by the Big Bang.

Freedom is not freedom from causation. It’s freedom from causation that is not your own. What could be more obvious?

Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been.

Though, according to His right & power over man, God could prescribe obedience in all things...yet, that He might elicit from man voluntary and free obedience, which alone is grateful to Him, it was His will to enter into a covenant with him by which God required obedience

People can become so morally weak that they loose their free will.

The two of things that all of us have in common is that we are capable of much harm and, at the same time, capable of much good. Free will determines by which we will live.