Free Will Quotes

“Some enter, some leave, but the show
must go on while the door is still open.”
― Abhaidev, Heaven's Gate

“Love is a compulsion you can’t subdue; an irresistible force, one can’t restrain! It’s not in our control, no matter how hard you try; like trying to curb and hold back when your bladder is full. There is no free will, you see.”
― Abhaidev, Heaven's Gate

“There is no one else but you who has authority over your happiness. You alone command the absolute authority over your Enlightenment. There is no other authority responsible for your success or failure in life.”
― Geoff Malone (Samvara)

“Demeter. This is not the time for your to develop free will.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves

“If there were no consequences, he would surely chuck his phone at the person pressing the doorbell. But Ran lived in a world shaped by choices and consequences, so he chose to answer the phone. He wanted to believe that he had a choice between the two most unpleasant things that could happen simultaneously.”
― Byrd Koto, Our Funny Love Story

“When you're a child, you have imaginary friends. But when you're an adult you have imaginary enemies.”
― Darkmatter2525

“They believe the only way to save this world is to remake it in their image.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth

“Her wings would be invisible to human eyes, her presence felt only in the whispers of the wind and the warmth of the sun.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth

“The things people do from choice are meaningful and the effort that they take is a sign of great love.”
― Angela Chen

“Free will cannot exist without truth. Without an understanding of how our financial system is designed to anchor both individuals and the collective in ego consciousness, it is difficult to claim we have exercised conscious choice or true free will our entire lives.”
― Daniella Liberati, Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity

“The ghost still lingers in my thoughts, Captain—but I’ve chosen to bear responsibility for the living, not be ruled by the dead.
— Prince Hamlet”
― Jacklyn A. Lo, Hamlet's Last Choice

“If we opt, over and over, to surrender our valuable energy and time to people and things that hold no real value and, worse, separate us from the people and things that do, the joke’s on us and we have only ourselves to blame.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“God spoiled you humans: He gave you Free Will—the choice to love or to hate, to dream or to work, to climb up or fall down.”
― Jacklyn A. Lo, Redemption

“Have you ever seen a big dog, tied with rope? You might think, 'Why doesn't it just bite off the leash and go free? It can, it is big enough.' But the dog never will because it never thinks to.”
― r.t.j.tan, The Last Black Dragon

“Future unfolds in cascades of causes and choices. That is the Best Fit Theory, realizing what will happen next.”
― Pusp Raj Bhatt, The Best fit Theory: … realizing what will happen next !

“Is it wrong for a boy to dream of freedom?”
― Luc Jorgart, The Wild Dogs of Kumamoto

“Freedom is not the absence of limits, but the awareness of them.”
― Calina Aliman-Dorneanu, The Illusion of Free Will: Destiny, Simulation and Vibration – A Story of Human Wonder

“Suppose it's all a question of glandular secretion. Too much of one gland, too little of another — and you get your murderer, your thief, your habitual criminal. Clement, I believe the time will come when we'll be horrified to think of the long centuries in which we've indulged in what you may call moral reprobation, to think how we've punished people for disease — which they can't help, poor devils. You don't hang a man for having tuberculosis.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage

“In the cosmic scheme of things, your life barely registers as a blip. It is hardly noticeable in the long arc of history. The information you produce by moving your arm up is not going to tell you much about anything of interest. But when you scope down in a way that reflects the horizon scaled to human thought and action, your life looms large in the image. It doesn’t just loom large; it occupies a central place. The events of your life provide the frame of reference around which the events of History arrange themselves in circles of diminishing knowledge and concern. The difference that your choices make to your own future is large, indeed.”
― Jenann Ismael, How Physics Makes Us Free

“Making your own decisions and acting for yourself requires taking responsibility. And so, these people stop thinking for themselves. It's easier to leave everything up to someone else. And that's how they end up abandoning their own personal truths.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved the Library

“The loop of conformity, with its silent, subtle pull, often makes us forget the power of our own free will. It keeps us moving in a predictable line, afraid to color outside the assigned design."

The Loop of Conformity. Understanding the Patterns that Bind" published by the "NEW LITERARY SOCIETY”
― Yvonne Padmos

“Principles of choice, or “personal rules,” represent self-enforcing contracts with your future motivational states; such contracts depend on your seeing each current choice as a precedent that predicts how you’re apt to choose among similar options in the future. Short-range interests evade personal rules by proposing exceptions that might keep the present case from setting a precedent. The will is a recursive process that bets the expected value of your future self-control against each of your successive temptations.”
― George Ainslie, Breakdown of Will

“What happens to free will... when the voice shaping your thoughts has no will of its own?”
― Itamar Politi, The Moment When a Human and a Machine Looked at Each Other: A Raw Philosophical Dialogue with AI on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Edge of Human Identity

“Sleepless, possessed, almost happy, I reflected that there is nothing less material than money, since any coin (a twenty centavo piece, for instance) is, in truth, a panoply of all possible futures. Money is abstract, I said over and over, money is future time. It can be an evening just outside the city, or a Brahms melody, or maps, or chess, or coffee, or the words of Epictetus, which teach the contempt of gold; it is a Proteus more changeable than the Proteus of the Isle of Pharos. It is unforeseeable time, Bergsonian time, not the hard, solid time of Islam or the Portico.

Adherents of determinism deny that in the world there is only one possible event, ed ist an event which could have happened; a coin symbolizes our free will. (I did not suspect that these “thoughts” were an artifice against the Zahir and a first manifestation of a demoniacal power.) After long and tenacious musings, I at last fell asleep, but I dreamed that I was the pile of coins guarded by a gryphon.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“What is life but a confusing algorithm when you are aware, or a controlled simulation when you are not?”
― F.C. Quiles, Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures

“This is your will," the Resurrectionist insisted. "I am merely helping you realize it.”
― Chelsea Abdullah, The Ashfire King

“I will still save the city
And not just because of any
Godwritten prophecy
And not some divine decree
Because the rage of my free-will burns
Brighter than any star-bound fate”
― Nivedita Roy, The Main Character Act

“К Алисе подошел Джимми.
- Привет, - сказал он. - Ты чего с мучительства сбежала? Струсила? Тебя на подвиги не возьмут, учти.
- Глупый, - вздохнула Алиса. - Ну кого это на подвиги берут? На подвиги люди сами ходят, и без разрешения.”
― Кир Булычев, Вампир Полумракс. Звездный пес

“We thought we were predicting the future.
What we built… was something that started choosing it.”
― Dominikus Wahyu