George Jung
Drug Dealer, Author
"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."
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Free Will
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will"
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin."
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"This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will."
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"Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
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"Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical."
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"Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity."
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"You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want."
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"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
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"Submit to the fate of your own free will."
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"In the mind there is no absolute or free will."
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"Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it."
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"My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."
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"You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will."
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"Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws."
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"Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale."
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"But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals."
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"He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will."
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"The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice."
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"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
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"The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it."
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"The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race."
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"Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law."
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