Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Related topics

creation determinism evidence free man masterpiece reason weight

Related quotes

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother. View quote
Anzia Yezierska
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. View quote
Hannah Arendt
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. View quote
Oscar Wilde