Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
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.
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do, were it to inhibit or hinder the use of free will in man. . .
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust. " "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
Free will. . . it's all the rage these days
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.
Submit to the fate of your own free will.
I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
