Famous quotes containing the word willed:
“To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1914–1991)
“All “it was” is a fragment, a riddle, a horrible accident—until the creative will declares: “But thus I willed it!”MUntil the creative will declares: “But thus I will it! Thus shall I will it!””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)