My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not… — Emily Lloyd Copy Share Image
Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren't allowed to be… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together… — Charles Fletcher Dole Copy Share Image
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of,… — Hannah Copy Share Image
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical… — Haldan Keffer Hartline Copy Share Image
You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James Copy Share Image
The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image