613 Quotes About Free-will

I... I had a dream,’ said Mario through a pained expression, ‘that my life was not my-my-my own. That I didn’t create my own destiny. That my fate was predetermined. Amanita, you don’t think—’‘Shush,’ she whispered, placing a finger over his lips, ‘they might hear you...

You can‘t go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it‘s just a cage.

Reality has no arbitrary professional boundaries.

You can do what you want but you cannot want what you want.

The only thing deterring us from complete free will is our social conditioning which influences our thoughts and decision-making.

One of the most important lessons of life—one I believe most people never learn—is that almost everything important is a choice. We choose whether to be happy (or, at the very least whether to act happy), whether to be a hard worker, whether to be honest, whether to be kind, whether to see miracles, and, yes, whether to believe in God (or, at the very least, live as if there is a God).

Some of the greatest achievements of modern philosophy result from the attempt to reconcile the belief in human freedom with the eternal laws of God’s nature, and among these achievements Spinoza’s is not only the most imaginative and profound, but perhaps the only one that is truly plausible.

You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.

We are automata entirely controlled by the forces of the medium being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water, but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for free will. The movements and other actions we perform are always life preservative and tho seemingly quite independent from one another, we are connected by invisible links