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The Way to Will-Power (Large Print Edition)

The Way to Will-Power (Large Print Edition)

Hazlitt, Henry

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PhilosophyGeneral World HistorySelf-Help

ISBN10: 1494894769
ISBN13: 9781494894764
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 4 2014
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.24 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
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Will-Power, then, may be defined as the ability to keep a remote desire so vividly in mind that immediate desires which interfere with it are not gratified.

As long as we keep in the backgrounds of our minds that the will is really an abstraction, there is no harm in speaking of it a good part of the time as if it were an entity; and insofar as it can be said to represent a definite and permanent entity, the will may be defined as our desire to be a certain kind of character.

It is not the 'conscience' in itself, nor the 'evil' desires, that ultimately count; it is the relation of the one to the other. The stronger his conscience, or counter-desires, must be; the weaker his desires, the less need he has for a strong conscience.

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