Jasper Fforde Quotes

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.