Quotes About Conation

#1. Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Samuel Alexander

#2. For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Samuel Alexander

#3. But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Samuel Alexander

#4. Catch Catodon ... cast out his conation.

Gene Wolfe

#5. It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

Samuel Alexander

#6. Heart's wave could not curl and break beautifully into the foam of spirit, unless the ageless silent rock of destiny stood in its path.

Holderlin

#7. There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The brilliance of art lives in its flaws.

Cora Carmack

#10. "Failure" isn't a word I really use.

Sebastian Roche

#11. It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#12. Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?"
She taps the side of her head.
"Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

Jojo Moyes