Volitions

The former he calls volitions and the latter appetitions ❋ Youpa, Andrew (2004)

Author of all our volitions is the Creator of the world, who first bestowed motion on this immense machine, and placed all beings in that particular position, whence every subsequent event, by an inevitable necessity, must result. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Says Dr. Hodge, "The will is not determined by any law of necessity; it is not independent, indifferent, or self-determined, but is always determined by the preceding state of mind; so that a man is free so long as his volitions are the conscious expression of his mind; or so long as his activity is determined and controlled by his reason and feelings." ❋ Unknown (1959)

This view may seem at first exaggerated, but the more our so-called volitions and their causes are examined, the more it is forced upon us. ❋ Bertrand Russell (1921)

The ultimate Author of all our volitions is the Creator of the world, who first bestowed motion on this immense machine, and placed all beings in that particular position, whence every subsequent event, by an inevitable necessity, must result. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Here is seen how ideas arise from the fields of social institutions, and how characters, tendencies, sentiments, volitions, that is to say, in a word, moral forces, are produced and develop into conditions governed by circumstances. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Which is merely another way of stating the conclusion previously reached -- viz. that the only necessity which can be proved to govern our volitions is the necessity which is imposed by our own considerations of reason and morality. ❋ George John Romanes (1871)

The real question in dispute in regard to the will is, whether, all things external and internal being the same to any voluntary agent, the volitions will be the same. ❋ 1772-1851 (1854)

The volition, viewed abstractly, is always the same, when the external action is the same; but the moral character of the acts, where the volitions are the same, may vary exceedingly. ❋ 1772-1851 (1854)

This is sometimes called "volitions," but that is taking just one element of the aggregate to name the entire package, so it is not the best translation. ❋ Unknown (2000)

This man can spend hours in pursuit of 'volitions' with all the excitement of the chamois-hunt. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the intervals of pandemonium, each chattered, cut up, hooted, screeched, and danced, himself sufficient unto himself, filled with his own ideas and volitions to the exclusion of all others, a veritable centre of the universe, divorced for the time being from any unanimity with the other universe-centres leaping and yelling around him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He had discovered that it was different from the other walls long before he had any thoughts of his own, any conscious volitions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I scarce could propel myself forward, surprise had frozen so thickly around the base of my spine, where all the impulses to walk begin, all the volitions. ❋ Justine Larbalestier (2010)

Spinoza wrote in Ethics, "... men believe they are free in as much as they are conscious of their volitions and desires, yet ignorant of the causes that have determined them to desire and will." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The experiments mentioned by keiths suggest that this view is incorrect, given that they strongly point to two independent volitions and two thinking processes in the same person. ❋ Unknown (2007)

According to Frankfurt, if freely willed action for which an agent is morally responsible is purely a function of the relation between an agent's will and her second-order volitions, then it does not matter in any way how an agent came to have that particular mesh. ❋ McKenna, Michael (2009)

Frankfurt calls agents who have no second-order volitions wantons. ❋ McKenna, Michael (2009)

What makes a thought or bodily motion an action is its being preceded by a certain act of will (volitions) which bring about the thought or motion. ❋ Uzgalis, William (2009)