Causally Determined Quotes & Sayings

The sceptical attack [on free will philosophy's concept of libertarian freedom] amounts simply to a dogmatic determination to describe the world only in terms that already exclude freedom as a distinctive feature of human life. The sceptic assumes that the world can contain no power other than causation; and that any event that is not causally determined by prior events must just be random. But if we insist on describing the world only in these terms, then of course it may well appear that libertarian freedom is not possible and cannot exist. But by what right do we so exclude such freedom from the very outset? — Thomas Pink

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. — Nicolas Cage

The most beautiful idea, perhaps, is that freedom and determinism can peacefully coexist: If our brains are causally determined in the right way, if they make us causally sensitive to moral considerations and rational arguments, then this very fact makes us free. Determinism and free will are compatible. — Thomas Metzinger

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one — Johnny Depp

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other. — George Trumbull Ladd

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature. — Corliss Lamont

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events. — James Geary

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. — John Chrysostom

You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference. — Bob Corker

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species ... even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree. — Bertrand Russell

Just love - it is the best thing you can do with your life. — Debasish Mridha

Once you've found that person that you truly love, they'll be in your heart forever. They'll never doubt your love for them because they know, you feel the same way for them. — Amber

Her high hopes had set her up for a long fall. And it was never the fall that killed you in the end. It was hitting the bottom that did all the damage. — G.X. Todd

I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first. — Zach Condon

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together. — Margaret Atwood

Here, child, said Mae hastily Hide your eyes. Boys? Are you decent? What'd you put on to swim in? I got Winnie Foster in the house?
For goodness sake ma said Jesse emerging from the stairwell . You think were going to march around in our altogether with Winnie Foster in the house?
And Miles behind him sain we just jumped in with our clothes on too tired to shed them
It was true. They stood there side by side with their wet clothes plastered to their skins, little pools of water collecting at their feet. — Natalie Babbitt