Free will (n.) is a concept relying on the erroneous notion of cause and effect whereby our will is erroneously taken as a 'cause' when any event could just as likely be taken instead as the unfettered assertion of wills from all sides.
Free will (n.) necessarily implies fate, just as spirit implies matter, and good implies evil.
Free will (n.) is an egregious theological trick for making mankind 'responsible' in the theological sense - which is to say, responsible to theologians.
Free will (n.) is essentially the emotion of supremacy in respect to him who must obey.
Free will (n.) has, as a doctrine, man's pride and sense of power as its parents.
Free will (n.) is the belief that engenders hatred and revengefulness — we forgive the animal that harms us because we think it could not have chosen otherwise.
Free will (n.) is the waterfall's illusion: in its twists we see caprice, yet every motion is calculable — and the actor's belief in his freedom is itself part of the mechanism to be computed.
Free will (n.) is sought exactly where each man is most firmly fettered — passion, duty, knowledge — as if the silkworm sought its freedom in spinning; the theory is an invention of ruling classes.
Free will (n.) means nothing more than feeling no new chains: we always live in manifold dependence, but long habit stops us feeling the old ones.
Free will (n.) is atomism of willing: it presupposes isolated facts separated by empty space, where in reality there is continuous flux.
Free will (n.) leaves its believers no right to punish — if the deed arose from pure wilfulness without reason, it was not an intentional act against reason; their own principles deny them the right.
Free will (n.) has human pride and the feeling of power for its father and mother — we are no more responsible for our waking life than for our dreams.
Free will (n.) is not the real question — the unfree will is mythology; in real life there are only strong and weak wills.
Free will (n.) was invented so the gods would never be bored: a deterministic world would have been predictable, and the spectators would quickly have grown weary of it.
Free will (n.) is the shadiest trick theologians have for making humanity 'responsible' — that is, dependent on them; people were thought free so they could be judged and punished.
Free will (n.) is antireligious: a form of growing pride that claims for man the right to be the cause of his own exalted states.
Free will (n.) was invented for the sake of punishment — the most fateful falsification in psychology: priests wanted a right to take revenge, and a right for God to take it.
Free will (n.) in its absolute form can only be imagined as purposeless — roughly like a child's game or an artist's creative play-impulse.