Quotes About Will

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Din flac?ra purificatoare a durerii, negarea voin?ei de a tr?i, adic? eliberarea, izbucne?te ca un fulger.

The only freedom that exists is of a metaphysical character. In the physical world freedom is an impossibility.

To will [Wollen]! Great words! pointer on the scales of the Last Judgment, the bridge between heaven and hell! Reason is not the light shining from heaven, but only a sign post set up by ourselves and directed to the chosen goal, that it may show us the direction when the goal itself is concealed. But one can direct it to hell just as well to heaven.

El individuo es un vaso harto frágil para contender la aspiración infinita de la voluntad de la especie, concentrada en un objeto determinado.

The will of the individual is dwarfed by the will of the species - for every suicide, there are thousands of unwilling births.

Asceticism is the denial of the will to live; and the transition from the Old Testament to the New, from the dominion of Law to that of Faith, from justification by works to redemption through the Mediator, from the domain of sin and death to eternal life in Christ, means, when taken in its real sense, the transition from the merely moral virtues to the denial of the will to live.

A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants.

In this respect '?????????? would be a fitting title for the will; yet again this title seems to apply to the intellect, in so far as that is the guide and leader, like the footman who walks in front of the stranger. In truth, however, the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

perché come il mondo è da un lato, in tutto e per tutto, rappresentazione, così dall'altro, in tutto e per tutto, volontà.

Gdyby?my przyj?li wolno?? woli, to ka?da ludzka czynno?? by?aby cudem nienadaj?cym si? wyt?umaczy?: skutkiem bez przyczyny.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Herkes istediÄŸini yapabilir, ama istediÄŸini isteyemez

El hombre puede, acaso, hacer lo que quiere; pero no puede querer lo que quiere.

Thus the will-to-live generally feasts on itself, and is in different forms its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all the others, regards nature as manufactured for its own use.

This need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression of the miserable side of humanity.

Thus music is as immediate an objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself is

La volontà, come cosa in sé, differisce completamente dalla sua manifestazione fenomenica ed è assolutamente indipendente dalle forme di quest'ultima, che essa assimila solo quando si manifesta, e che quindi concernono solo la sua estrinsecazione obiettiva, ma sono estranee alla volontà stessa.

Voluntary and complete chastity is the first step in asceticism or the denial of the will-to-live.

what remains after the complete abolition of the will, for all those who are still full of will, assuredly nothing. But conversely, to those in whom the will has turned and denied itself, this very real world of our with all its suns and galaxies, is – nothing.

A fé é como o amor: não pode ser obtida pela força.

every human individual be aware of the inescapable and arbitrary suffering which is set off by the very existence of the will and refrain from using the imaginative power of our mind to envision it otherwise.

Arthur Schopenhauer