Quotes About Fate Vs Free Will

#1. (C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!

Garth Stein

#2. Now that you're here, now that they know you exist, you'll never be free again. Ever. We're prisoners to our books, our fates planned long before we were born. You're no different than us. Fight your fate all you want, but deep down you know it's true.

Angela Parkhurst

#3. If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself ... and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Stephen King

#4. 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 Farooq

#5. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Johnny Rich

#7. Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate - a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. Quinn's life rested on the fate of seven Warriors who were coming to free him.

Donna Grant

#9. Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Neal Stephenson

#11. I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

John Perkins

#12. Yeah, I'm listenin'," Morganith answered, "and Arda once told me pregnant Alteri women can see what might come to pass, not what will come to pass. What they see is just what people chose to do of their own shitty free will, not what they were forced to do by some gods.

Ash Gray

#13. Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from readers' laps and punch the readers' noses.
Rejoice, little book!
For on that day, we will be free

Joanna Russ

#14. If you have the understanding to first notice the signs, continue with the courage to follow them.

Nikki Rowe

#15. Our life is determined for us
and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

George Eliot

#16. Fate is but a dying wish ... Of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; Upon its petals, two people shall be free.

Youka Nitta

#17. The universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we are, and in those choices we make inside, even if outside, those choices seem impossible.

Dianna Hardy

#18. Our ability to choose is sacred. It's what makes humans special.

Mark Andrew Poe

#19. Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Marcus Aurelius

#20. Life calls the tune, we dance.

John Galsworthy

#21. I've been coerced into free will.

Brian Spellman

#22. Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

Juvenal

#23. Future is predestined and unchangeable.

Vivake Pathak

#24. Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

George Will

#25. Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

Jimmy Carter

#26. So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.

Naomi Ragen

#27. Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything

A.J. Messenger

#28. Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#29. I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Carlos Castaneda

#30. The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

C. G. Jung