Potentiality Quotes
57 quotes by 49 authors
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history…
— Hannah Arendt
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something…
— Joseph Campbell
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again:…
— James Agee
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an…
— Thomas Huxley
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Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The…
— Karl Marx
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
— Huston Smith
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As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person…
— Abraham Maslow
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Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren.…
— George Gilder
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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A…
— Douglas MacArthur
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To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has…
— James Russell Lowell
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Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic,…
— Deepak Chopra
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Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star…
— Olaf Stapledon
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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
— D. H. Lawrence
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It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the…
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
— Iannis Xenakis
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Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences
— Anagarika Govinda
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The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential…
— Deepak Chopra
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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good…
— David Quammen
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God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God…
— Peter Kreeft
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