Quotes About Volition

America is all about freedom of choice.

A newly-born child has no volitions, only reflexes. It is only when experience has supplied us with an idea of what may be done that we will it shall be done. This consideration alone is enough to shatter the case for the supposed freedom of the will. [3]

Free will again, Cathy said. Or free wont, Peterson said mildly.

In the end he [God] will allow us to become what we have chosen.

They even found themselves able to die if they wanted to.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

what you can do is often a matter of what you will do.

You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unkowingness, and give up your volition...You've got to learn not-to-be before you can come into being.

I have not felt to warble and trill, however sweetly, I have felt to soar in freedom and in the fullness of power, joy, volition.

A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind. Though the Christian may not feel like obeying God

McCabe's Law Nobody has to do anything.

How can a book describe the psychological factors a person must prepare for . . . the despair, the alienation, the anxiety and especially the pain, both physical and mental, which slices to the very heart of the hiker's volition, which are the real things that must be planned for? No words can transmit those factors . . .

a quote on page 6 by a fellow named Charles Long, with whom the authors of The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California heartily agreed, that said, "How can a book describe the psychological factors a person must prepare for … the despair, the alienation, the anxiety and especially the pain, both physical and mental, which slices to the very heart of the hiker's volition, which are the real things that must be planned for? No words can transmit those factors …

Wanting to be is not the same as choosing to be

Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.

De todas las criaturas vivientes, sólo el ser humano tiene, en el grado más alto, la facultad de elegir y expresar su voluntad,

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

We have already remarked how who we are can be defined, at least in part, by what we attend to - how much more so this is when what we attend to is determined less by our volition and more by ambience.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.