(37 quotes found)
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
Voltaire
“Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.”
Scott Adams
“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.”
Ayn Rand
“"The robber of your free will," writes Epictetus, "does not exist”
Marcus Aurelius
“No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. [John 10:18]”
Bible
“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will”
Epictetus
“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright”
Martin Luther
“There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.”
Agatha Christie
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