propensions

Their propensions in their different sexes, are as ardent and irresistible as those of others, and they need not be more.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The veridical Triboulet did therein hint at what I liked well, as perfectly knowing the inclinations and propensions of my mind, my natural disposition, and the bias of my interior passions and affections.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The veridical Triboulet did therein hint at what I liked well, as perfectly knowing the inclinations and propensions of my mind, my natural disposition, and the bias of my interior passions and affections.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Principle of Approbation, and assigns to it as its province the motives or propensions to action.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

General declamations against vice and sin are indeed excellently useful, as rousing men to consider and look about them; but they do often want effect, because they only raise confused apprehensions of things, and indeterminate propensions to action, which usually, before men thoroughly perceive or resolve what they should practice, do decay and vanish.

The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

A man is not responsible for being [Greek: theratos], because "particular propensions, from their very nature, must be felt, the objects of them being present, though they cannot be gratified at all, or not with the allowance of the moral principle."

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

See Bishop Butler's account of our nature as containing "particular propensions," in sect.iv. of the chapter on Moral discipline, and in the Preface to the Sermons.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

He hath real kind propensions toward thee, and is ready to receive thy returning soul, and effectually to mediate with the offended majesty of Heaven for thee, as long as there is any hope in thy case.

The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910

This is practical love, and not pathological—a love which is seated in the will, and not in the propensions of sense—in principles of action and not of tender sympathy; and it is this love alone which can be commanded.

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. First Section: Transition from the Common Rational Knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical. 1909

Our intellects and our propensions -- not our sense-perceptions, which are shared with animals -- guide our actions and our apprehension of truth.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909