Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Free Will

Quotes about: Free Will

• There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't 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.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Doe, Watches, Variables

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Falling In Love, Order, People

• Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Media, Desire, Culture

• So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Reality, Thinking, Want

• And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Bored, Doe

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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