Winnston Spencer Churchill
on Free Will |
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Title: My Early Life |
 a personal search for the meaning of lifeSynchronicity: The German physicist Wolfgang Pauli the psychologist C. G. Jung wrote together on the synchronicity of events. |
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remarkable book was written long before Churchill played
a most eminent role in standing up against
totalitarianism during and after World War II. On page 36 of his autobiography Churchill expresses his belief in the effect of strong personalities on the course of history: |
 Some German and English quotation on Free Will |
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| "Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination; namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical." | page 36: Free Will and Predestination | |
| "I have always loved butterflies. In Uganda I saw glorious butterflies the colour of whose wings changed from the deepest russet brown to the most brilliant blue, according to the angle from which you saw them. In Brazil as everyone knows there are butterflies of this kind even larger and more vivid. The contrast is extreme. You could not conceive colour effects more violently opposed; but it is the same butterfly. The butterfly is the Fact - gleaming, fluttering, settling for an instant with wings fully spread to the sun, then vanishing in the shades of the forest. Whether you believe in Free Will or Predestination, all depends on the slanting glimpse you had of the colour of his wings - which are in fact at least two colours at the same time. But I have not quitted and renounced the Mathematick to fall into the Metaphysick. Let us return to the pathway of narrative..." | 
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