Free Will

A few lines worth keeping:

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic — in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom.