Definitions, Meanings, Synonyms, Examples and Famous Quotes of volition in English

volition

• 1.

  The faculty or power of using one's will.

  "Without conscious volition she backed into her office"

• 2.

  The power to make your own decisions

  "The singer wished it to be known that he had left the band (out) of his own volition (= it was his decision) ."

• 3.

  The capability of conscious choice and decision and intention

  "The exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"

  Synonyms (1)

  Will

  Type of (3)

  Module Faculty Mental faculty

  Has types (1)

  Velleity

  Derivation (1)

  Volitional
• 4.

  The act of making a choice

  "Followed my father of my own volition"

  Synonyms (1)

  Willing

  Type of (4)

  Option Pick Selection Choice

  Has types (1)

  Intention

  Derivation (1)

  Volitional

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Quotes and Sayings about "volition"

1.

"The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy."

--- Edward Dahlberg

2.

"Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted."

--- Eliezer Yudkowsky

3.

"I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public. That trumped any type of professional repercussions that it could have had. And – not by my own volition or choice – I’ve been playing exclusively straight characters for the first 10 years of my career. Whatever happens from this point on says a lot more about the business and society than it does about me."

--- Matt Bomer

4.

"the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness."

--- Marianne Moore

5.

"Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought."

--- Jerry Fodor