Sentence examples for volition is from inspiring English sources
Oliver James's latest book, How Not to F*** Them Up is out in paperback Why anyone would read Tiger, Tiger of their own volition is beyond me.
Free will or volition is one such notion: people are incapable of explaining how it differs from stochastic caprice but feel strongly that it does.
"Feeding and mating we share with the animals, / but volition is ours alone" we read in "Self-Portrait as the Red Princess".
At least, he says, making "gorgeous noises of their own volition" is light and pleasurable duty: "What better job than to be in the prison band?" Mr. Lair and Mr. Sulzer are devising new instruments and seeking new talent.
One's volition is realised into action and he gets his desired object.
The Valentinian doctrine that salvation and damnation are predestinate, independent of volition, was defended by Candidus on the ground that Satan is beyond repentance; Origen replied that if Satan fell by will, even he can repent.
William James, for example, suggests in the Principles of Psychology that 'volition is nothing but attention' (James, 1890 p. 424), and at one time proposed that "Attention, belief, affirmation, and motor volition, are four names for an identical process, incidental to the conflict of ideas alone, the survival of one in spite of the opposition of the others".
God's knowledge and volition are the principles by which he acts.
Avicenna considers God's immutability to entail that his knowledge and volition are also immutable.
(Notably, Volition was the first outside money into Chewy, a pet supplies company that sold to PetSmart earlier this year in the biggest e-commerce sale to date, ever).
