Opposite of predilections

Usage examples of aversions.

For if the intervenient appetites make any action voluntary, then by the same reason all intervenient aversions should make the same action involuntary.

Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men are different: and diverse men differ not only in their judgement on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight.

These are the Desires and Aversions, the Pursuits and Avoidances, or the exercise of the active powers, and the Assents of the understanding.

The desires and Aversions were considered as simple affections of the mind, arising from the apprehension that anything was conducive to happiness, or the contrary.

From this regulation of the Desires and Aversions follows that freedom from perturbation, grief, anger, pity, etc.

The next step to Stoical perfection was, the class of Pursuits and Avoidances 2 As the Desires and Aversions are simple affections, the Pursuits and Avoidances are exertions of the active powers towards the procuring or declining anything.

The constant performance of what these point out naturally followed from a regulation of the Desires and Aversions in the first topic.

Do we then find any of the wicked exempt from sorrow, fear, disappointed desires, incurred aversions?

They are not aversions to its feebleness (as is pretended), but to its energy.

The influences about him create his preferences, his aversions, his politics, his tastes, his morals, his religion.

All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions, passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.

As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.

What I call ordinary unconsciousness means being identified with your thought processes and emotions, your reactions, desires, and aversions.

The character and tendencies of the heirs, are generally well understood among the slaves who are to be divided, and all have their aversions and preferences.

But, neither their aversions nor their preferences avail them anything.