Quotes About Volition

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

I believe in one thing only the power of human will.

My duty is simply my own will brought to my clear self-consciousness. That which I can rightly view as good for me is simply the object of my own deepest desire set plainly before my insight.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

Arrange-toi pour qu'ils aient toujours cette sensation de choix, hors de laquelle il n'est pas de bonne volonté possible. (p. 14)

They need only to give up the idea of forcing us to acquiesce to their groups and series, their socialized projects, their free- credit banks, their Graeco-Roman concept of morality, and their commercial regulations. I ask only that we be permitted to decide upon these plans for ourselves; that we not be forced to accept them, directly or indirectly, if we find them to be contrary to our best interests or repugnant to our consciences.

But there's always a choice. We make our choice, and then we put the blame on fate.

So far as freedom is concerned, it is of course true that freedom is commonly understood to be a necessary condition of moral responsibility.

Well, think of what I'm doing to you right now. For me I'm the self, and you're the object. For you, of course, it's the exact opposite—you're the self to you and I'm the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally." "I still don't get it, but it sure feels good." "That's the whole idea," the girl said.

He comes out of the mine about the same as when he went in. He has no sense that it was something he decided to do himself, or that he had a choice. He's like totally passive. But I think in real life people are like that. It's not so easy to make choices on your own.

La plus volontaire mort c'est la plus belle.

Pero justo eso constituye el signo distintivo de una voluntad demoníaca, el transformar en realidad lo imposible.

You always have an option. There is always something you can do. You are never without choice.

FA' CIO' CHE VUOI, questo vuol dire che posso fare tutto quello che mi pare? No, vuol dire che devi fare quel che è la tua vera volontà, e nulla è più difficile.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

Free will...it's all the rage these days

- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.

A man is above all his will

Our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism; . . . to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata.

If you wish to carry a hungry weasel in your pocket, it is your choice.

Love can only be found in freedom of choice. And for choice to exist, there must be an alternative to choose. Something as compelling as love.