Alan Moore Quotes

We are unable to recognize the laws of necessity if we believe we are free

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

All theory is against freedom of the will, all experience for it.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.