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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Life
You
Game
Will
Free
Free Will
Way
Determinism
Like
Dealt
Hand
Play
Cards
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
God
Best
Freedom
You
Wise
Man
Will
Free
Long
Free Will
Longing
Understanding
Own
Air
Must
Find
Only
Never
Clearest
Sincere
Drowning
Longs
Know
Without
Doing
According
Begins
Just
Ends
Where
Predestination
Your
Meanwhile
Keep
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Will
Men
Free
Free Will
Creation
Every
Seek
Atom
Only
Could
Mystery
Through
Had
Taking
Him
His
Motive
Infinite
Sensitive
Pains
Creator
Shroud
Presence
Desire
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides
God
Will
Free
Free Will
Own
Numerous
Complain
Our
Faults
Evils
Ourselves
Relief
Seek
Individual
Due
Existing
Inflict
Being
Which
Ascribe
Them
Far
Persons
Themselves
Who
Connected
Exposed
Suffer
Defects
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Will
Free
Free Will
Believe
Must
No Choice
Choice
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
Faith
Great
Liberty
Worth
Will
Free
Free Will
Own
Rejection
Our
Minds
Evidence
Gifts
Having
Make
Make Up
Tradition
Up
Human
Reason
Certitude
Based
Fundamentalism
Humans have an amazing capacity to believe in contradictory things. For example, to believe in an omnipotent and benevolent God but somehow excuse Him from all the suffering in the world. Or our ability to believe from the standpoint of law that humans are equal and have free will and from biology that humans are just organic machines.
Yuval Noah Harari
God
Suffering
World
Law
Amazing
Will
Free
Example
Free Will
Organic
Believe
Biology
Omnipotent
Our
Benevolent
Machines
Ability
Somehow
Excuse
For Example
Equal
Him
Contradictory
Just
Capacity
Standpoint
Things
Humans
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
Deepak Chopra
Sad
Time
Me
Creativity
Reflection
Will
Free
Free Will
Think
Imagination
Meditation
Philosophers
Philosophy
Way
Inquiry
Intuition
Insight
Given
Self
Contemplation
Importance
Because
Scientists
Domain
Role
Any
Place
Which
Many
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Francis Collins
God
People
Will
Free
Free Will
Other
Gave
Ways
Hurting
Exercise
End
Up
May
Us
Choose
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
God
Will
Free
Free Will
Our
Everything
Willing
Take
Share
Thus
Glory
Which
Us
Away
Belongs
One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear of the future. If there wasn't, none of the religions could invoke this important thing - that science has no evidence of, by the way - called free will.
Greg Graffin
Future
Science
Fear
Will
Free
Free Will
Important
Way
Evidence
Kind
One Of The Things
All Religions
Religions
Some
Could
Invoke
Narrative
None
Important Thing
Doomsday
Thing
Things
Reality is on a delay. For you, nothing is now. Realizing this fact is unsettling. If we can only react to the past, how do we manage to navigate the present? It's easy to spiral into a treatise on free will while in the fetal position, overthinking our forever past.
Kyle Hill
You
Reality
Will
Free
Delay
Free Will
Past
Nothing
Our
Easy
Spiral
Only
Fact
Unsettling
React
How
Forever
Manage
While
Realizing
Navigate
Now
Present
Treatise
Position
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
Paulo Coelho
Will
Free
Free Will
Out
Mass
Catholic
Because
Am
Go
Then
Choose
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
Anselm of Canterbury
You
Grace
Will
Free
Free Will
Remove
Nothing
Saved
Could
Whereby
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
Mortimer Adler
Truth
Heart
Will
Made
Free
Free Will
Assured
Our
Follow
Glad
Lead
Know
Also
Well
Make
Motive
End
Hearts
May
In The End
Acknowledge
Which
Us
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning
Art
Will
Free
Free Will
Own
Others
Out
Forced
His
Artist
Paint
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
Adam Hamilton
God
Nature
People
Will
Evil
Free
Free Will
Remove
Laws
Seldom
Does
Doing
Just
Keep
Things
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus
Happiness
Will
Free
Free Will
Own
Ruin
Shall
Never
He
Come
His
Lack
Just
Who
Utter
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
Alan Moore
Illusion
Will
Free
Long
Free Will
Important
Mad
See
Going
Just
Stop
As Far As
Far
Us
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
Corliss Lamont
Truth
Will
Free
Free Will
Intuition
Gives
Us
Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.
Courtney A. Kemp
Will
Free
Free Will
Down
Universe
Our
Powerless
Exercise
Get
Either
Gonna
Plan
Your
Even
Humans
Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.
David Hanson
Creative
Smart
Wake Up
Will
Free
Free Will
Someday
Self
Discerning
Robots
Wake
Up
May
Human
Maybe
Human Beings
Capable
Really
Fully
Beings
Conscious
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
Language
Will
Free
Free Will
Control
Way
One-Way
Factors
Beyond
Another
Because
Accepts
Imposed
Very
Different
Psychology
Which
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
Man
Will
Free
Free Will
Creation
Other
Evidence
Determinism
Weight
He
Masterpiece
Than
Notwithstanding
Reason
Believes
Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Service
Future
Will
Free
Free Will
Own
Our
Ideal
Render
She
Continue
Should
Her
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
John Dalberg-Acton
Together
Liberty
Safety
Guardian
Will
Free
Free Will
Duty
Both
Sin
Condition
Domains
Being
Ends
Even
Grow
Conscience
Grows
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