Quotes About Volition

Recuerdo vivamente su definición de magia: es "la ciencia y el arte de hacer que un cambio ocurra en conformidad con la voluntad".

Once you've tasted freedom every choice you make thereafter is your own.

The only thing a person can genuinely make in this life is a decision.

Seuls les actes décident de ce qu'on a voulu.

Study after study has indeed found a primary role for the prefrontal cortex in freely performed volitional activity. "That aspect of free will which is concerned with the voluntary selection of one action rather than another critically depends upon the normal functioning of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and associated brain regions," Sean Spence and Chris Frith concluded in "The Volitional Brain.

Carried to its logical limits, a system in which no one has a choice about what action to take is unworkable.

Anything entering or exiting any orifice on your body is your choice. I don't get a say; I don't want a say. It's that simple.

An act against my will is not my act.

Your choices are your only freedom.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;

The freedom to choose not to choose. Choosing nothing instead of something.

Seems to me a man should have a choice whether to take up arms or not." "We have no more choice in that than in whether or not to be born.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

we often subject ourselves to sentiments by our own volition, — deliberately bind ourselves, and create our own fate; chance has not as much to do with it as we believe.

I have never paid for fornication, and I don't intend to begin with you. When you come to me, and come to me you shall, you shall do so of your own accord and wholly free of all commerce and custom.

Un lema de la raza humana Dime qué debo hacer; pero tiene que ser lo que quiero que me digas.

because I wanted to

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Reacting vs. responding = reflexive vs. chosen. We can choose

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.