I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek."… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline,… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
We have the ability to choose, we are God's higher form of creation, we surpass all other forms of life and we… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty,… — C. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way,… — James Mortimer Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
