Quotes About Volition

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

A choice isn't something someone gives you, it's something you make for yourself.

Your freedom will be expressed by your choices.

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

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all

You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Jugar solo tiene gracia cuando es el resultado de una libre elección, y no cuando es la opción única, casi obligatoria.

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

You always have a choice. Life is full of choices

Consideremos, por ejemplo, la omnipotencia, pues un creador ha de ser onmipotente: o bien el creador no decide crear, y en ese caso pierde su omnipotencia, pues la creación se hace sin el concurso de su voluntad, o bien crea voluntariamente y ya no es todo poderoso, porque crea bajo la influencia del deseo de crear.

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford, makes the extremely strong statement: "It's boggling that the legal system's gold standard for an insanity defense—M'Naghten—is based on 166-year-old science. Our growing knowledge about the brain makes notions of volition, culpability, and, ultimately, the very premise of a criminal justice system, deeply suspect.

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

A vontade não é de cada um e em cada dia?

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.