#free will

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will. ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#anything #benevolent #came #definitely #enough

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#biology #comfortable #free #free will #i

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#big #big questions #cool #death #free

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#anyway #bit #business #free #free will

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#circumstances #free #free will #great #i

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#free #free will #future #her #ideal

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#adopt #behavior #comes #free #free will

No tribe unites with another of its own free will. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#free #free will #own #tribe #unites

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.' ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#come #compromised #free #free will #gods