Faculty Quotes

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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your… — Dante Alighieri
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human… — John Gresham Machen
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Manly Hall
An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed… — Napoleon Hill
Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's… — Robert Penn Warren
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,'… — Oliver Sacks
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
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these… — Parker J. Palmer
It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race'… — Christopher Hitchens
Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles, and… — Osamu Dazai
I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean,… — Rachel Vincent
Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that… — Timothy Keller
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not… — Marina Warner
I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present,… — John Gardner
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. — Anne Bronte
Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart… — Edgar Allan Poe
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. — Edward Albee
Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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