Volitions Quotes

#1. Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.

John Stuart Mill

#2. It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Harry Frankfurt

#3. That by the decrees and volitions, and consequently the providence of God, Scripture (as I will prove by Scriptural examples) means nothing but Nature's order following necessarily from her eternal laws.

Baruch Spinoza

#4. The urge toward action, i.e., improvement of the conditions of life, is inborn in man. Man himself changes from moment to moment and his valuations, volitions, and acts change with him. In the realm of action there is nothing perpetual but change. There

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. All perceptions, all volitions occupy the
same seat in these (cerebral) organs; the faculty of perceiving,
of conceiving, of willing merely constitutes
therefore a faculty which is essentially one.

KANDEL

#6. Since nobody is in a position to substitute his own value judgments for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people's aims and volitions. No man is qualified to declare what would make another man happier or less discontented.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Warren Farrell

#8. Whatis the root of all these words?
One thing: Love.
But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.

Hafez

#9. Did not care. Going to the wall he unfastened the cord and

Philip K. Dick

#10. Home. Magic. Miracles. A reason to stay.

Kristine McCord

#11. It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

Alice Waters

#12. The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. It feels like there is a giant man inside my head blowing up an enormous balloon. The balloon is made of spikes and the man is shouting very loudly.' Egg

Jamie Scallion

#14. Twists, turns, virgins and bad boys. I love a good YA read. Do you?

Jennifer Bardsley

#15. You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

Brenda Fassie

#16. A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'

Dennis Christopher

#17. identify the cravings for what they are - a desire to feel better right now.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#18. Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

George Eliot