The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.)
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There is no reality exception in action.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.
Under presupposition of free will each human action would be an inexplicable miracle – an effect without cause. And if one dares the attempt to make such a liberum arbitrium indifferentiae imaginable to oneself, one will soon become aware that here the understanding quite genuinely comes to a standstill: it has no form for thinking of such a thing.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
