William James Quotes About Free Will

Quotes about: Free Will

• My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

  William James

  Believe, Firsts, Free Will

  Diary, 30 Apr. 1870

• Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

  William James

  Life, Determination, Successful

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

• The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

  William James

  Belief, Free Will, Decree

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.180, Courier Corporation

• The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

  William James

  Free Will, Psychological

  William James (1984). “Psychology, Briefer Course”, p.391, Harvard University Press

• The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

  William James

  Race, Vagueness, Free Will

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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