Quotes About Volition

We cannot, after all, be forced to be free or to value freedom.

It is up to the individual to choose the life they think best French

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

I just gotta keep reminding myself: Every time I do an interview or something, my volition really has to be just to serve, to help people. Not to feel like I'm important.

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.

I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

My grandfather was in the military, and I've been part of the Folds of Honor Foundation since 2009, so having the opportunity to wear Puma's Volition America collection is the perfect fit for me.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against ...

Not to have a choice is also a choice.