Quotes About Will

É que toda vez que queremos imitar alguma coisa que se passou realmente, esquecemos que essa coisa foi produzida não pela vontade de imitar, mas por uma força inconsciente e, por sua vez, real.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Non posso fingere di non sapere quanto la volontà di un ottimo chirurgo sia ininfluente rispetto al compiersi di un destino. Le braccia di un uomo sono ferme alla terra, figlia mia, Dio, se c'è, è alle nostre spalle.

But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.

I know essentially you're some kind of enchantress. Maybe you're still serving your apprenticeship, but you're an enchantress all right. Probably I'd get used to you in time. Right now, it's only my demonic will that's keeping me playing it mighty cool.

mingled love and shame for our people, a mingled love and terror of white culture. And then (as if the result of these others), despair and a furious will to extinguish the self. My people's enemies have done this to me. But so have my own loved ones. My enemies took too much. My loved ones asked too much.

mingled love and shame for our people, a mingled love and terror of white culture. And then (as if the result of these others), despair and a furious will to extinguish the self. My people's enemies have done this to me. But so have my own loved ones. My enemies took too much. My loved ones asked too much. Let me say with care that the blame is not symmetrical: my enemies forced my loved ones to ask too much of me.

Magic is a convenient word for a whole collection of techniques, all of which involve the mind. In this case, we might conceive of these techniques as including the mobilization of confidence, will, and emotion brought about by the recognition of necessity; the use of imaginative faculties, particularly the ability to visualize, in order to begin to understand how other beings function in nature so we can use this knowledge to achieve necessary ends.

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

On n'est pas libre tant qu'on désire, qu'on veut, qu'on craint, peut-être tant qu'on vit.

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.