Free will. It's like butterfly wings: once touched, they never get off the ground. No, I only set the stage. You pull your own strings.
John MiltonMan is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him through his reasoning mind to decide which he wants to be.
Ayn RandGod is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Niccolo MachiavelliHuman freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species, us
Daniel DennettThis doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific explanation. It splits the world of the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to protect our cherished free will.
Simon Blackburn
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