Quotes About Will

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man, as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of Nature.

Freedom of Men under Government, is, to have a standing Rule to live by, common to every one of that Society, and made by the Legislative Power erected in it; A Liberty to follow my own Will in all things, where the Rule prescribes not; and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, Arbitrary Will of another Man.

or a man's own consent subjects him to a superior.

Las emociones son nuestros sentimientos. Los filósofos griegos enseñaron que la voluntad y las emociones deben estar sujetas al intelecto, y los teólogos reformados también han defendido la "primacía del intelecto".26 Pero la Biblia no

Como dije en el capítulo 7, el intelecto, la voluntad y las emociones son una sola cosa en la naturaleza humana. Ahora podemos ver que estas también son una en nuestra naturaleza pecaminosa.

En la mente humana hay intelecto, memoria y voluntad, pero las tres son una. Y,

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

Today's mercantile society exploits the will to jouissance so as to repress it all the more.

You generally need at least a modicrum of stability for people to have the time and resources to innovate and the will to make risky choices.

The Elf-knight stayed close to the unflished stone wall, as far from the massive iron cover of the oubliette as practical. He was dry-washing his hands as if they ached, until he noticed Will looking. Then he folded his arms one over the other and waited in a stance as falsely relaxed as parade rest.

Kit's voice stayed level, amused, but there was a honeyed rasp in it that Will knew for sheerest hatred.

The crippled Raven found Will in his new room and seemed well pleased with the wider window, for all it must rattle at the glass for attention. Will didn't think this typical behavior in a raven, but perhaps the pampered birds at the Tower had been hand-fed into audacity.

The moon continued to darken, even as the eastern sky grew pale. A third of the disc had vanished into shadow and Will caught his breath at the beauty of it, and the danger.

The cold of Faerie magic pierced he warmth of the night; the Seeker's will cast a shadow as she pausd under a streetlight, again chafing her hands.

Thy William went willing, Kit. Even though thou didst retrieve him-mad poets, the both of you-the debt is paid for seven times seven years.

Clade upbringings fuck you up on so many levels, when you finally let the oppressive rightminding go and try to exist as an independent human being with things like judgment and will.

Will told himself a raven could not smirk.

A weapon is only a weapon with a will behind it, and a chain is only a chain when someone holds the key.

Government is either imposed with force, or it derives from the will of the governed. But it's a social contract, right? It exists simply because people say it does. It's not a thing you can touch.

The same radiance that netted and shrouded Will twisted around Baines as well, knotted in his hands, drawn up to his chest.