The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

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.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

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.