A Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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Faculties Insensible Living Mental Sloth

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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Swiss - Writer
December 8, 1728 - October 7, 1795

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Elizabeth Hurley

The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience.

Colin Wilson

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

Kajol

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

Charles Darwin

You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

Bob Proctor

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

Wendy Wasserstein

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

Kristen Bell

There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

Bob Proctor

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

John Chancellor

The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.

Thomas Huxley

My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.