613 Quotes About Free-will

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.