Quotes About Volition

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

In the words of Libet, "The initiation of the freely voluntary act appears to begin in the brain unconsciously, well before the person consciously knows he wants to act!

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

A human being is a deciding being.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

The content of your # character is your # choice.

There are no have-to's, just choices

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will.

Nada peor que buscar el sentido o creer que lo hay. O sí lo habría, aún peor: creer que el sentido de algo, aunque sea del detalle más nimio, dependerá de nosotros o de nuestras acciones, de nuestro propósito o nuestra función, creer que hay voluntad, que hay destino, e incluso una trabajosa combinación de ambos.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing.

Given that people would often choose not to choose, it is hard to see why freedom lovers should compel choice even though people (freely and voluntarily) resist it. If we ask the waiter to select a good bottle of wine to go with our dinner, we will not be happy if he says that we should just choose for ourselves!

Jackson would have chosen himself. It was designed

Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

We have power over nothing except our will.

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.