Voltaire Quotes About Free Will

Quotes about: Free Will

• Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Brutus". Play by Voltaire (Act II, Scene I), 1730.

• Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

  Voltaire

  Destiny, Law, People

• Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

  Voltaire

  Expression, Ideas, Wish

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