“Genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (via philosophybits)
Akrasia (/əˈkreɪzɪə/; Greek ἀκρασία, “lacking command”), occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy, is described as a lack of self-control or the state of acting against one’s better judgement. The adjectival form is “akratic”
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