His Own Powers Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of…
— C.S. Lewis
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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for…
— William Graham Sumner
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in…
— John Dewey
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted…
— Rollo May
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Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out…
— Alexander Alekhine
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
— Samuel Johnson
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Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be…
— Martin Luther
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