#free will

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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We must believe in free will, we have no choice. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The intuition of free will gives us the truth. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. ↗