Quotes About Volition

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.

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

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call 'human nature,' the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct.

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires...Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform.

are you a person with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surpring or are you a tool? A tool just serves it's user, and it's not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplich something special -something more than you can do for yourself - you can't use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something that's free to not be what you had in mind.

I freely will the best choice, thus willing the same will

You are free to choose, But you are not exempted from the consequences of your choices.

Our life is all about personal choices we make. We choose the life we live.

there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.

choice.—The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?

That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive.

Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.

E' bello decidere, ritiene, ma puoi anche decidere di lasciarti influenzare, di accettare un consiglio o in suggerimento perché così ti gira, di non cristallizzare il flusso della vita fissandoti su qualcosa di assolutamente contingente come la tua volontà

Platón afirmaba que «cada uno es la causa de su propia elección»; y

En una descripción bien hecha, aunque sea obscena, hay algo moral: la voluntad de decir la verdad. Cuando se usa el lenguaje para simplemente obtener un efecto, para no ir más allá de lo que nos está permitido, se incurre paradójicamente en un acto inmoral.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

the group and group-consciousness were dominant…[the individual] was not an autonomous, individualized entity with a knowledge, morality, volition, and activity of its own; it functioned solely as a part of the group, and the group with its superordinate power was the only real subject.

Acting is just my hobby. When I don't want to do it, I won't do it.

We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good