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.
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.) 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.) 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.
The General will (n.) is like a family's 'we' at dinner, spoken by whoever carves.
The General will (n.) is always announced by someone who never asked.
The General will (n.) is always just, but the judgment which guides it is not always enlightened.
The General will (n.) formed the intellectual basis for all modern totalitarianisms.
The Good will (n.) is as much a counterfeiter as hatred or revenge: the errors of good will have harmed mankind most deeply, for the delusion that brings happiness lulls reason to sleep.
The Good will (n.) is as much a counterfeiter as love, hate and revenge: in a thousand cases it falsifies reality so as not to suffer — and the errors of good will have harmed mankind most.
Good will (n.) costs nothing to give and is the first thing withdrawn in a dispute.
Good will (n.) is credit extended before any evidence arrives.
Self-will (n.) is like a cat on a table: it pushes the glass off because you watched it.
Self-will (n.) hears every piece of advice as an attempted occupation.
Self-will (n.) is admired in toddlers only by adults who don't have to dress them.
Self-will (n.) would rather be wrong on its own terms than right on anyone else's.