But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest… — William McFee Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues -… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits. — John Locke Copy Share Image
