Attitude Quote by Morris Raphael Cohen

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

— Joseph Priestley

“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

If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

— Evelyn Underhill

“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

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to…

— Epictetus

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

— Evelyn Underhill

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Charles Spurgeon

“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

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach…

— Charles Darwin