Voluntary Movement Quotes

I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.