“I do not choose to choose what I choose.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 39
Source: Wintersmith
“I do not choose to choose what I choose.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 39
“I can choose. I have to choose.”
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
We the People interview (1996)
Context: I can choose. I have to choose. I have to make my mind up whom I will take into my arms, to whom I will lose myself, whom I will treat as that vis-a-vis, that face into which I look, which I lovingly touch with my fingering gaze, from whom I accept being who I am as a gift.
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 31 : Authority's End
“If I must choose between righteousness and peace I choose righteousness.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
America and the World War (1915)
1910s
“I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: Letters of John Keats
“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”
Sheldon Kopp (1929–1999) American psychotherapist
Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 11
Frances Hardinge (1973) British children's writer
Source: The Lost Conspiracy