Akrasia Quotes

#1. We often suffer from akrasia, weakness of will. So we become good people the way we become good tennis players or violinists, through practice until the behaviour we aspire to becomes natural and instinctive. Being moral means acquiring the habits of the heart we call virtue.

Jonathan Sacks

#2. Akrasia [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

John Searle

#3. We can have lunch at Brown and Muffs

Nicola Thorne

#4. You decide your own level of involvement.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

Edward Dahlberg

#6. I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

Rupert Everett

#7. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

#8. When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.

Mark Fuhrman

#9. I am what I am, and I don't apologize for being honest.

Rusty Blackwood

#10. For a world full of universities, brilliant people and clever corporations it sure is a pit of hell and sorrow for billions. What's missing?

Bryant McGill

#11. I love you, Jemmaline Girard. I always have and I always will. You are my future and my forever. You have already claimed the deepest part of my soul, femme de mon coeur.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#12. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napoleon Hill

#13. No sooner are her glass toes thrust into the mud grave than the revolutions begin. Uprisings, fire and steel. The prince is lynched in the ballroom with the dead girl's hair. Royalty's a thing of the past. The kingdom chooses their monarch.
Naturally, they elect a wolf.

Allyse Near

#14. This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. We need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.

Rafe Martin

#16. The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Mason Cooley

#17. We're all wanting things we don't understand. things we can't even name. The yearning so deep, like pinions over our hearts.

Megan Abbott