determinism

A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.

No, free will is not an 'extra'; it is part and parcel of the very essence of consciousness. A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.

Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.

Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously.

I've been coerced into free will.

Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny _ that of the hunted.

He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

Hope: Hold on, persistence effort!

The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it strikes us as an alien agency within, striving for life and procreation blindly, mediated only secondarily by consciousness. Instinctive sexuality is at our core, interfering constantly with the life of the intellect. To be an individual expression of this will is to lead a life of continual desire, deficiency, and suffering. Pleasure or satisfaction exists only relative to a felt lack; it is negative, merely the cessation of an episode of striving or suffering, and has no value of itself. Nothing we can achieve by conscious act of will alters the will to life within us. There is no free will. Human actions, as part of the natural order, are determined [....] As individual parts of the empirical world we are ineluctably pushed through life by a force inside us which is not of our choosing, which gives rise to needs and desires we can never fully satisfy, and is without ultimate purpose. Schopenhauer concludes that it would have been better not to exist__nd that the world itself is something whose existence we should deplore rather than celebrate.

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

With determination, discipline and hard work all dreams become a reality.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Be determined.You can make it in life.You can make all your dreams come true.

You can get what you want in life.You must reach out with all your heart.

Believe in yourself. Determine to pursue your goals.