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Those who talk of human freedom to alter the course of things should beware of their words. They are constrained not only as adults but as children and still more as embryos. Only the measure of their freedom and the extent of this constraint varies. Inwardly there is more freedom for thoughts to create attitudes, but outwardly there is more constraint. Basically all situations are subject to the World-Idea, that is to say in popular religious language, The Divine Will.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 4 : Free Will, Responsibility, and The World-Idea > # 124