Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will… — Felix Schelling Copy Share Image
I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image