It acts first of all on his volitions and thinking, to align them with itself.
It cannot be revealed unless the laws by which the Lord oversees and governs the volitions and thoughts of the human being are disclosed.
One who watches his volitions and subsequent deeds knows that such a decision intervenes, sometimes more than once in a single utterance or action.
God acts and directs all things simply by the necessity of His nature and perfection, and that His decrees and volitions are eternal truths, and always involve necessity.
The will and the intellect are nothing but the individual volitions and ideas themselves.
Only individualvolitions exist, that is to say, this and that affirmation and this and that negation.
It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that those who believe this common or universal idea of all the volitions to be a faculty should say that it extends itself infinitely beyond the limits of the intellect.
The philosopher, if he be consistent, must apply the same reasoning to the actions and volitionsof intelligent agents.
There must exist in the mind of God a determination to do what He actually does, because His actions are the result of His volitions or determinations.
By single volitions on the side of the right, the true, and the good.
Man could not be more free than he is, if God were totally ignorant of all his volitionsand actions" (Deity, p.
Thus the proper immediate objects of moral approval or disapproval would seem to be always the results of a man's volitions so far as they were intended--i.
We may conclude then that judgments of right and wrong relate properly to volitions accompanied with intention--whether the intended consequences be external, or some effects produced on the agent's own feelings or character.
Nor again, can even the enforcement of contracts be fairly said to be a realisation of Freedom; for a man seems, strictly speaking, freer when no one of his volitions is allowed to cause an external control of any other.
In deliberate volitions there is always a conscious selection of the result as one of two or more practical alternatives.
The results of such "natural agencies" as these are very like the effects produced by the volitions of a wise and thinking being.
The will tires not of its supremacy, and is not wearied with the number of volitions required of it to keep every joint in action, and every organ performing its proper function.
The organisation of some peoples is wholly the product of the conflicts of blind impulses and purely individual volitions working through long ages.
In this way we shall have a strong, well-knit soul-texture, made up of volitions and ideas like warp and woof.
Here also are engendered the volitions which when flashed through the motor centers become expressed in activity or behavior.
Particles stand for volitions and their concomitant ideas.
Can the data presented to us reveal more than sequence, in the relation between our volitions and the corresponding movements of our bodies?
M152) Say you, the unknown substratum of volitions & ideas is something whereof I have no idea.
They are associated with the individuals around him who minister to his wants; the gratification of these depend on the volitions of others.
As he grows in strength he learns to supply his own wants, and to make good his own volitions as against those of his fellows.
Man's volitionsare practically the shadow of his affections.
Subordinate volitions in the Christian are not always determined in character by the fundamental choice; eddies in the stream sometimes run counter to the general course of the current.
It is not, therefore, the doctrine that our volitions and actions are invariable consequents of our antecedent states of mind, that is either contradicted by our consciousness, or felt to be degrading.
Those who think that causes draw their effects after them by a mystical tie, are right in believing that the relation between volitions and their antecedents is of another nature.
It is still disputed whether our thoughts, emotions, and volitions are generated through the intervention of material mechanism; whether we have organs of thought and of emotion, in the same sense in which we have organs of sensation.
A desire, an emotion, an idea of the higher order of abstraction, even our judgments and volitions when they have become habitual, are called up by association, according to precisely the same laws as our simple ideas.
The affirmative opinion is commonly called the doctrine of Necessity, as asserting human volitions and actions to be necessary and inevitable.
Because whatever happens will be the effect of causes, human volitions among the rest, it does not follow that volitions, even those of peculiar individuals, are not of great efficacy as causes.
But the doctrine of causation, when considered as obtaining between our volitions and their antecedents, is almost universally conceived as involving more than this.
Volitions are not known to produce anything directly except nervous action, for the will influences even the muscles only through the nerves.
Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.
This is the instinctive philosophy of the human mind in its earliest stage, before it has become familiar with any other invariable sequences than those between its own volitions and its voluntary acts.
If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power.
Whence it evidently follows, that man is not master of his volitions and desires.
Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?
But judgments, emotions, and volitions cannot by any possibility be included under the head of "mental images of sensible objects.
Moreover, a full half of the metaphysical world espouse the doctrine of free-will, and consider that all volitions occur without any cause at all.
In the minds of mad people those volitions alone exist, which are unmixed with sensation; immoderate suspicion is generally the first symptom, and want of shame, and want of delicacy about cleanliness.
Hence the sum-total of our Volitions and our Ideas constitutes Action, and the sum-total of our external acts he called Reaction.
He inquired, for instance, whether the element that constitutes electricity does not enter as a base into the specific fluid whence our Ideas and Volitions proceed?
Proof--Will and understanding are nothing beyond the individual volitions and ideas (II.
Assuming for the moment that the volitions of sleep are real, as Mr. Stewart supposes; if it can be shown that they are satisfactorily performed, it results from his line of reasoning that the will has power over the body during sleep.
He appears to accept the dream for a reality, and to regard the seeming volitionswhich occur in it as actual facts; whereas they are all entirely fictitious.
The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion.
In which-ever way you take it, you find only certain passions, motives, volitions and thoughts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volitions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
