And the essence of that which is improperly called the freewill doctrine is that occasionally, at any rate, human volition is self-caused, that is to say, not caused at all; for to cause oneself one must have anteceded oneself-which is, to say the least of it, difficult to imagine.
"Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley"
Thomas Henry Huxley