free will

Noun

Meaning

A will free from improper coercion or restraint.

The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

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free-will

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Examples

As virtue is a thing that has no master, that is, is free, everything that is free will be united with virtue. Gregory of Nyssa

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. Niccolò Machiavelli

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. Thomas Carlyle

A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will. Nigerian Proverb

What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will. Latin Proverb

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