Quotes Tagged "will-power"

Will is nobler than truth

Yet, the existential intellection has disregarded the possibility that a coming-into-being as not a finality but a process and that it is a making of meaning from the ground zero, for we are incomplete beings. Being is nothing but containment of essence, and the precedent-will has to be taken a priori to coming-to-being. Because we are choosing to become a volitional being.

The resistant reasoning understands a revolt as a protester against the criminality of the universe—the crime of neglect and irresponsibility. To protest and revolt, we must exist because our existence is proof of its crime.

His primacy of self and willingness to perpetuate his will go beyond death and toward perfection.

Knowledge in one’s true individuality and selfhood can give him the irreducible fact of himself, and one’s perception of himself is everything of value.

Everything can be redefined in this world, that needs one's determination and dedication.

Life is like a mountain, it has one top and two valleys, it’s how you manage the valley that determines if you will ever reach the top.

Life is like a mountain, it has one top and two valleys, it’s how you manage the valley that determines is you will ever reach the top.

Self determination is greatest will power.

I struggle to reveal my struggle to people who are struggling to believe I struggle in the first place. In fact, my real struggle is with my struggling willpower, which refuses to struggle hard enough to make my struggle a success.

Sometimes will is what eventually makes the difference.

Don't worry about anything. If something is meant for you, it will come to you somehow. There is nothing to worry, just give it some time. if its not meant for you, it will never come to you. Your worry never makes a sense there. But your will power is something that let the things falls for you.

Your will power is everything that let the things fall for you.

It's done now, Tony said. We can't change what's already been decided. Can't we? I wondered. Even just a little? Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breathe, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

There is a fascinating passage in Nietzche’s Twilight of the Idols that is one of the great passages in philosophical literature, and you don’t have to agree with anything else Nietzsche says, but this is a real gem: Writing about education in Germany in the 1880s, which very much describes our educational situation today, he says: “I shall straightaway set down the three tasks for the sake of which one requires educators. One has to learn to see, one has to learn to think, one has to learn to speak and write: the end in all three is a noble culture. Learning to see – habituating the eye to repose, to patience, to letting things come to it; learning to defer judgment, to investigate and comprehend the individual case in all its aspects. This is the first preliminary schooling in spirituality; not to react immediately to a stimulus, but to have the restraining, stock-taking instincts in one’s control. Learning to see, as I understand it, is almost what is called in unphilosophical language ‘strong will-power’: the essence of it is precisely not to ‘will,’ the ability to defer decision. All unspirituality, all vulgarity, is due to the incapacity to resist a stimulus – one has to react, one obeys every impulse.” He later says, with great psychological insight, “almost everything which we crudely name ‘vice’ is merely this physiological incapacity not to react.” He further states: “A practical application of having learned to see: one will have become slow, mistrustful, resistant as a learner in general. Jeff Nyquist