Do you control what you believe?

[Angrboda]

Or we could say we do control what we believe in order to suit ourselves. We just don't control what suits ourselves. We're more involved consciously than most determinists and monists allow, but of course there is something about being someone in particular which prejudices ones choices.

“A man’s character is his fate.”
— Heraclitus

“We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way we are.”
— Anais Nin

“I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.”
— The Lathe Of Heaven, Ursula K Le Guin