A man has free will, and this is of three kinds:
first of all he was free when he wanted this life;
now, of course, he cannot go back on it,
for he is no longer the person who wanted it then,
except perhaps in so far as he carries out what he then wanted,
in that he lives.
Secondly, he is free in that he can choose the pace and the road of this life.
Thirdly, he is free in that,
as the person who will sometime exist again,
he has the will to make himself go through life
under every condition and in this way to come to himself,
and this, what is more, on a road that, though it is a matter of choice,
is still so very labyrinthine
that there is no smallest area of this life that it leaves untouched.
This is the trichotomy of free will,
but since it is simultaneous, it is also a unity, an integer,
and fundamentally so completely integral
that it has no room for any will, free or unfree.
-Franz Kafka
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
-William James
Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.
-Carl Jung
