Mental Power Quotes - Page 2

• With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Political, Needs

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

  James Merrill

  Thinking, Voice, Imagination

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• I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical.

  Johannes Kepler

  Fall, Reading, Science

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• I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

  David Klass

  Hope, Quiet, Beacons

  David Klass (2008). “Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy:”, p.381, Macmillan

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• Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Unique, Technique

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Greatness, Men

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• The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Night, Age, Lamps

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

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• There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Average, Organization

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 274), 1964.

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• The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Block

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• A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.

  David Papineau

  Smart, Order, Way

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• It's true that the level of scientific knowledge among adults is very low, but that's not because there isn't a natural interest. I think most kids are fascinated by the natural world. I've often said that if you could quantify the mental power involved in all the dinosaur names correctly known and correctly spelled by 5-year-old kids in America, you could move any mountain on earth.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Moving, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to investigate and what cases to bring. This court fundamentally embodied a potential for abuse of governmental power that I felt was inconsistent with being a free person - and [it was] inconsistent for a free country like the United States to subscribe to it.

  John Bolton

  Country, Real, Abuse

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Veils, Action, Vehicle

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• What we really need to understand here is that it`s all about power. This is where the surge is coming from for Bernie Sanders. In some ways, it`s a very different - it`s a different surge, but it`s coming out of the same sort of sense of fundamental powerlessness and anger and frustration for Donald Trump.

  Robert Reich

  Frustration, Different, Needs

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle of the ether, you can call it. It is the subtle of the matter. It is the subtle of your emotions. It is the subtle of your mental power. It is the subtle of your evolutionary power, but all integrated and coordinated in complete synchronization.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

  Charles Darwin

  Future, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.51, Broadview Press

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• The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than the woman. Whether deep thought, reason, or imagination or merely the use of the senses and hands.....We may also infer.....The average mental power in man must be above that of woman.

  Charles Darwin

  Sex, Men, Average

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• The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

  Arthur Lynch

  Sleep, Optimism, People

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• I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.

  J.A. Redmerski

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• Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Memories, Long, Risk

  Nicholas G. Carr (2010). “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Blow, Liberty, Revolution

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

  Frances Wright

  Mean, Exercise, Equality

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.26

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• Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Men, Errors

  "The Man versus the State: Great Essays".

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• Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.

  Alexander Guchkov

  Country, Strong, War

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