Anthropology Quote by Manfred Kuehn

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

— Henry Edward Manning

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

— Louis Berkhof

“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

“And what it [a future myth] will have to deal with will be exactly what all myths have dealt with – the maturation of…

— Joseph Campbell

A character is a completely fashioned will.

— Novalis

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

— Vanna Bonta

“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

“Thus the will-to-live generally feasts on itself, and is in different forms its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

— Kelly McGonigal

In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its…

— Ruth Behar

“...it is necessary to act within but to think beyond our received humanist tradition and, all the while, to imagine a much more complicated…

— Lisa Lowe

Will is character in action

— William McDougall