Quotes About Volition

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Schopenhauer says, 'a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.

As Schopenhauer says, 'a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.

A man's measure is his will.

everything within our control is a choice. I

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

You're a stubborn, ill-trained horse. she said The horse snorted and walked towards the North Road of his own volition. Hey! Karigan pulled back on the reins. Whoa. Who do you think is in charge here?

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

When you get down on your knees in front of me it won't be out of gratitude. It'll be because you want to be there."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them.

I choose to want to. This is of course false. I don't choose my desires. I only feel them, and act accordingly.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.

Half the pleasure in life comes from learning to choose between things.

Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and control over the human spirit. Liberty is the dream that we can all work together, in ways of our choosing and of our own human volition, to realize a better life.

Doesn't it seem to you that acting against one's will, under protest and compulsion, is tantamount to being a slave?

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions—in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing. The things that are up to us are by nature free, unhindered, and unimpeded; the things that are not up to us are weak, enslaved, hindered, not our own.

Therefore your will is your own business too.