Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)
Christianity tells us we have free will. God has provided man with a choice whether to believe in Him or not. If God's existence were logically inescapable, there would be no free will to choose whether or not to believe in Him.
The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.
There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.
The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
Hard to grasp democracy without free will.
The best ingredient is free. Free always makes food taste better.
Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
I wanted nothing for free. Nothing came for free at our place anyway.
Writing is the act of discovery.
Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
