613 Quotes About Free-will

The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.

Freedom that is not fought for, that is not gained by personal sacrifice is freedom that will never last, because in the heart of the one set free, it will have little value. A treasure that costs nothing is a treasure that is easily neglected and lost.

En travaux pratiques de physique, n'importe quel collégien peut faire des expériences pour vérifier l'exactitude d'une hypothèse scientifique. Mais l'homme, parce qu'il n'a qu'une seule vie, n'a aucune possibilité de vérifier l'hypothèse par l'expérience de sorte qu'il ne saura jamais s'il a eu tort ou raison d'obéir à son sentiment. (partie I, ch. 16)

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

If I had free will, I would choose to be funnier.

In my opinion and to the best of my understanding, free-will and pre-determination are two distinctly different economies that are 'operationally co-existent'".

Yes, we were given the free-will to choose how to be, but we can still go back to the one who gave it to us for guidance on how to use it.

Don’t just accept bad luck or misfortune as inevitable fate. Destiny is mostly the result of living your life by design.

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. We have the free will to choose by which we will live.