" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“...are you a person with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do… — Stephen Donaldson Copy Share Image
There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
“If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
