Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
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Daniel Delgado F
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
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Daniel C. Dennett
No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which...
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John Paul II
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
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C.s. Lewis
God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you....
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Jim Butcher
More Quotes By John Locke
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of...
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
