Capable Quotes

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The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life. — Richard Dawkins
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. — Richard Dawkins
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a… — William Hazlitt
Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever… — Stephanie Mills
With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic… — Gail Sheehy
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad… — Edmund Burke
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It… — Mark Z. Danielewski
Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet… — Henri Matisse
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification… — Clare Short
If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. — John Stuart Mill
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison… — Charles Sanders Peirce
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a… — Edward Gibbon
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. — Lyman Bryson
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream. — Louis Aragon
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator. — Alain de Botton
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be… — Jane Porter
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one… — Michael Cunningham
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far… — Morris Graves
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. — Wassily Kandinsky

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