Corliss Lamont Quotes

"I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Choice, Decisions, Freedom, Man)

"Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Knowledge, Intuition)

"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Men, Decision, Choice, Feeling)

"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Act, Ethics)

"The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Nature, Cause)

"The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Present)

"The intuition of free will gives us the truth."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Truth, Free will, Intuition)

"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion."
- Corliss Lamont
(Related: Character, Acting, Freedom, Self)