A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.
The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.