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«What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
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«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.»
«God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us»
«But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals»
«?Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn?t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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«If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright»
«If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
ascribes, free will, Jesus Christ, rightly
«Free Will does not say that everything that is physically conceivable is also morally possible. It merely says that of alternatives that really tempt our will more than one is really possible.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
alternatives, conceivable, free will, morally, physically, tempt
«Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
concerning, descant, descanted, free will