Agency Quote by Immanuel Kant

“The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power…

— Thomas Parker Boyd

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

— Joseph Priestley

“We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our…

— Donella H. Meadows

In oratory the will must predominate.

— David Hare

“Your acts are in accord with the will of your creator.”

— Benjamin Rowe

“Thomas Merton who said: “The will of God is not a ‘fate’ to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life…

— Richard Rohr

“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If…

— Michael J. Sandel

“The right use of the exercise of the will is a condition of salvation, necessary without a doubt, but remote, inferior, very subordinated, purely…

— Simone Weil

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

— Friedrich Engels

The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven…

— Ian Somerhalder

“The Will = The Way”

— Amany Zedan

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

— Charles Spurgeon