The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.
J.S.B. MorseStichwörter: truth choice free-will freedom belief christianity religion faith christian
Aren’t you at all curious about your past?” Rhys asked.
“No, my present is who I am. Your identity is whoever you choose to be, not who your parents were.”
“But as a scientist you know that prior events influence it, and the future.”
“In physics, yes. In people, no.
Stichwörter: past future free-will
No one can tell you for certain if we have free will or we don't. [...] Whatever you choose to believe, you will probably want to agree with the philosopher John Locke, who argued that the whole debate is largely irrelevant. If it feels to us like free will, then let's treat it as free will and get on with our lives.
John IronmongerStichwörter: determinism free-will
The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.
J.S.B. MorseStichwörter: science free-will belief god religion faith will christian believers
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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian. All are human beings. Further, the atheistic outlook puts man on his legs. There is neither divine will nor fate to control his actions. The release of free will awakens Harijans [lowest caste] and the depressed classes from the stupor of inferiority into which they were pressed all these ages when they were made to believe that they were fated to be untouchables. So I find the atheistic outlook helpful for my work [helping people]. After all it is man that created god to make society moral and to silence restless inquisitiveness about the how and why of natural phenomena. Of course god was useful though a falsehood. But like all falsehoods, belief in god also gave rise to many evils in course of time and today it is not only useless but harmful to human progress. So I take to the propagation of atheism as an aid to my work. The results justify my choice.
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoStichwörter: progress equality questions free-will morality humanity belief nature fate atheism atheist control naturalism materialism islam muslim hinduism cosmopolitan inferiority hindu useless aid harmful divine-will atheistic natural-phenomena atheistic-outlook caste-system man-created-god religious-barriers social-reformer untouchables
The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously.
Raheel FarooqStichwörter: determinism free-will fate
An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.
Raheel FarooqStichwörter: free-will philosophy evil good character
The very idea of penalizing based on propensities is nauseating. To accuse a person of some possible future behavior is to negate the very foundation of justice: that one must have done something before we can hold him accountable for it. After all, thinking bad things is not illegal, doing them is. It is a fundamental tenet of our society that individual responsibility is tied to individual choice of action. [...] Were perfect predictions possible, they would deny human volition, our ability to live our lives freely. Also, ironically, by depriving us of choice they would exculpate us from any responsibility.
Viktor Mayer-SchönbergerStichwörter: free-will justice punishment
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
Juvenal[Pertaining to The Law of Free Will and Karma]: Disputing traditional cause and effect karmic doctrine, Kuan Yin maintains that it is the accumulated beliefs from parallel realities creating “made-up stories” about oneself and, thus, reality. Because of this quantum factor, we have absolute Free Will to attract optimum realities from infinite, simultaneous Evolutionary Potentials. Thus, according to Kuan Yin, where and how skillfully one focuses their intention and attention can determine an outcome.
Hope BradfordStichwörter: free-will karma cause-and-effect kuan-yin evolutionary-potentials karmic-doctrine parallel-realities
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