Top 538 Faculties Quotes & Sayings

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

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

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

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

I want to have all of my faculties.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

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.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. The process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.

The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

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

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

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

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.

It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.

My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.