Ludwig von Mises Quotes

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

No highly evolved being would ever seek to control the thoughts of anyone, or cause anyone to think or act involuntarily. More along the lines of inspiration and invitation. As when one suddenly experiences an insight, or says, "I've just had a great idea." They can accept it and act on it, or reject it out of hand. There's no "control" involved.

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

What you do comes from what you think.

I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

When we think the universe moves. When we think we actually cause things to happen.

A man is the origin of his action.