will-less

• “While you may not share my love for the semi-dead, you might agree with this: most of us are surrounded by these mute, will-less, dumb, sometimes evil and dangerous brutes everyday.”

  The Huffington Post: Joe Waters: How Nonprofits Can Stop a Zombie Apocalypse

• “Do you see any similarities between Dewey's "experience freed ... from factors that subordinate an experience as it is directly had to something beyond itself" — when the "something beyond itself" is understood as the 1,001 things we can pursue relative to this or that object of perception — and Schopenhauer's pure, will-less perception?”

  Pure Experience

• “It was depressing to see a simple appeal for Westerners to listen to Muslim women deliberately distorted into a representation of all Muslim women as meek, will-less beings in need of rescue.”

  Naomi Wolf: What Do Muslim Women Want?

• “We want to feel adult, responsible, not will-less puppets to be shoved this way and that.”

  These Times, February 2008

• “In this view, Allmers becomes a type of what we may roughly call the “free moral agent”; Eyolf, a type of humanity conceived as passive and suffering, thrust will-less into existence, with boundless aspirations and cruelly limited powers; Rita, a type of the egoistic instinct which is “a consuming fire”; and Asta, a type of the beneficent love which is possible only so long as it is exempt from “the law of change.””

  Little Eyolf

• “Date: circa 1871 1. usually zombi a: the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body b: a will-less and speechless human in the West Indies capable only of automatic movement who is held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated”

  Did 28 Months Later Already Find its Director? « FirstShowing.net

• “Of course I'd adore to see you, but I am a soul-less, will-less automaton.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'

• “: "I was about to yield entirely to the sensation of dissolving into invisibility, of being swept into will-less and forgetful obscurity, when the bus turned onto a gradual leftward route that in a moment would become recognizable as Kutuzovsky Prospect!”

  The Wall Street Journal: Documents and Disorder

• “Aesthetic perception thus raises a person into a pure will-less, painless, and timeless subject of knowledge (WWR, Section 34).”

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• “This advocacy of mystical experience presents us with a puzzle: if everything is Will without qualification, then it is unclear where to locate the will-less mystical state of mind.”

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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