"I am a determinist who is forced to pretend that free will exists because if I want to live in a civilized society I must behave responsibly. (...) I have no control over the processes, primarily mysterious glands where Nature produces the essence of life. Henry Ford would presumably call this an inner voice, Socrates a daimon, but both tell us the same thing in their own language: the human will is not free.
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Albert EinsteinAll Translations
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I am a determinist who is forced to pretend that free will exists because if I want to live in a civilized society I must behave responsibly. (...) I have no control over the processes, primarily mysterious glands where Nature produces the essence of life. Henry Ford would presumably call this an inner voice, Socrates a daimon, but both tell us the same thing in their own language: the human will is not free.
""Olyan determinista vagyok, aki kénytelen úgy tenni, mintha létezne szabad akarat, mert ha civilizált társadalomban akarok élni, akkor felelősségteljesen kell viselkednem. (...) Nincs ellenőrzésem a folyamatok felett, elsősorban rejtélyes mirigyek azok, ahol a Természet előállítja az élet lényegét. Henry Ford feltehetően belső hangnak hívná ezt, Szókratész daimónnak, de mindketten ugyanazt üzenik nekünk a maguk nyelvén: az emberi akarat nem szabad."