Faculty Quotes - Page 8

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

George Orwell

Dry Up, Creative, Freedom Of Speech

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.

Adolf von Harnack

Our Generation, Names, People

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... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

Paul Halmos

Math, Giving, Lines

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The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on the hypnotized viewer. Those who have spent their lives protesting about 'false and misleading ad copy' are godsends to advertisers, as teetotalers are to brewers, and moral censors are to books and films. The protesters are the best acclaimers and accelerators. Since the advent of pictures, the job of the ad copy is as incidental and latent as the 'meaning' of a poem is to a poem, or the words of a song are to a song.

Marshall McLuhan

Song, Jobs, Book

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Addiction, Intellectual, Madness

Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Letters Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety.

Alexander Hamilton

Mean, Men, Rights

Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...”, p.76

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On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.

Dalai Lama

Truth, Nice, Animal

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Use, Unions

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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

Jacob Needleman

Would Be, Celebration, Capacity

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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

Daniel H. Pink

Leadership, Brain, Mind

"Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness. It is the one sheer gift of contemplation, completely unattainable by autonomous human effort. The realization of this love always remains mysterious.

Gerald May

Love, Kindness, Forever

"The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth".

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The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

Thomas de Quincey

Understanding, Mind, Indispensable

Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.9

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There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

John Owen

Exercise, Science, Men

John Owen (1991). “The Works of John Owen”

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To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Gertrude Atherton

Men, Demand, Lessons

Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

Ibn Khaldun

Soul, Receiving, Prejudice

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Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

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Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

Joseph Butler

Light, Innocence, Action

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I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.

Charles Dickens

Children, Believe, Thinking

"The Personal History of David Copperfield".

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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Frances Wright

Exercise, Men, Animal

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There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Amar Bose

Boston, Gone, Mit

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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

Michel de Montaigne

Hope, Desire, Infinity

Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

Mark Twain

Lying, Grieving, Space

Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author”, p.239

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He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Thomas Carlyle

Work, Law

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn, or bring it alongside of another truth, which may make it clearer, and thereby accumulate evidence. It belongs to the inventive faculty to see clearly the relative state of things, and to be able to place them in connection; but the discoveries of ages gone by belong less to their first authors than to those who make them practically useful to the world.

Luc de Clapiers

Discovery, Age, Connections

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People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.

Rudolf Steiner

Exercise, Knitting, Hands

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