Philosophy & Thought: Free Will & Fate Quotes

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"There's place and means for every man alive"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"The wheel is come full circle"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our conditions"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done", and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way""

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

Alfred A. Montapert

"Purity of heart is to will one thing"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out 'til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words and walk away with free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

Robert A. Heinlein

"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"Follow your own star!"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

Mikhail Bakunin

"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

Scott Adams

"It is the ability to choose which makes us human"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

Madeleine L'Engle

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

Ani DiFranco

"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

Thornton Wilder

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity"

Democritus, Philosopher

Democritus

"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

Paul Tillich

"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason"

Juvenal, Poet

Juvenal

"I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires, especially when they do not vitally affect oneself"

Isaac Rosenberg, Poet

Isaac Rosenberg

"Open your mouth and shut your eyes, and see what Zeus will send you"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"The moving finger writes, and having written, moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit can cancel half a line of it"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success"

Max Born, Mathematician

Max Born

"Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"People's fates are simplified by their names"

Elias Canetti, Author

Elias Canetti

"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

J. Martin Kohe

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