Acquaintance Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Friedrich Engels

Where there's a will, there are relatives.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Joseph Priestley

He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the activation of our personal will that brings us into engagement with our divine destiny.

— Edwin Mamerto

Everything in this world depends upon will.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“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

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

— Ramana Maharshi

“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty…

— Immanuel Kant

The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority,…

— John Stuart Mill