Full Idea
Man's action have been interpreted as free, which they are not, for every individual action follows with strict necessity from the impact of motive on character.
Gist of Idea
Man's actions are not free, because they follow strictly from impact of motive on character
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea [1819], II 023)
Book Reference
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'The World as Will and Idea', ed/tr. Berman,Jill and David [Everyman 1995], p.45
A Reaction
If 'character is fate' (Heraclitus) then presumably motive must also be fate to complete the determinist picture. I shall spend the next year redesigning my motivation.