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• Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sight, Smell, Four

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.356

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• Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

  Joseph Joubert

  Song, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.11

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• Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

  Alan Watts

  Practice, Breathing, Bridges

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.71, New World Library

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• Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

  George Sand

  Art, Nature, Mind

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• The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

  J. G. Holland

  Soul, Faces, Form

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.37

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• The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Moving, Use, Body

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Sleep, Winning, Night

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1930). “The fortunes of Richard Mahony: comprising Australia Felix, The way home, Ultima Thule”

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• men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.

  Monique Wittig

  Philosophy, Men, Class

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Genius, Talent, Command

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• In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development (or in-dept analysis, "appronfondissement", Fr.) of the faculties of the intelligence ("les facultés de l'intelligence", Fr.), the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental (or subordinate) things.

  African Spir

  Character, Heart, Winning

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

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• The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty,
  Even though this world is forever altering its values.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forever, Humanity, World

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• You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Men, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• Work is my recreation,
  The play of faculty; a delight like that
  Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
  In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Work, Play, Water

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Aime Martin

  Education, Soul, Degrees

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• 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.

  Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

  Real, Perfection, Soul

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• The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

  Lea Salonga

  Appreciation, Doe, Needs

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• We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.

  Ali al-Naimi

  Jobs, Business, Oil

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• The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Reflection, Ideas

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.354

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• If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

  Aristotle

  Men, Two, Soul

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• It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Exercise, Opposites

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Kind, Obvious

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• While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

  Aristotle

  Soul, Mind, Body

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Two, Soul

  Aristotle (2015). “The Complete Aristotle”, p.1108, Booklassic

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• The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

  Aristotle

  Two, Soul, Principles

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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• These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

  Aristotle

  Two, Soul, Half

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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