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“Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.”

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Author:Origen

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

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Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.”

“Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. In short, the natural fact of his "free will." He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.”

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Book:The Ethics of Liberty

Source: The Ethics of Liberty

“God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson