Faculty Quotes - Page 40

• Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

  Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

  Men, Desire, Firsts

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• No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Nature, Ocean, Swim

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• I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Expression, Feelings

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 129, 1863.

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• Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Couple, Who I Am, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Intellectual, Use

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• That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

  James Madison

  Government, Choices, Citizens

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.479

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• Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Generations, Woe, Midst

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.240, New York Review of Books

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• WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Divine, Dies, Extremity

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.36, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Gold, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, David M Gross

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• If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.

  Will Sheff

  Rocks, Ideas, Rock Music

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. May 1, 2007.

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• The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

  Andrea M. Ghez

  Ucla, World, Telescopes

  "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.

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• If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.

  J. C. Kumarappa

  Body, Appreciated, Relation

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• Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

  Carl Jung

  Being Yourself, Soul, Desire

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• What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Intellectual, Moral, Absurd

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• [Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Exercise, Imagination, Effort

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• The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Tolerance, Mind

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• Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Exercise, Men, Moral

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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• Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ideas, Taste, Realizing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1995). “The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments”

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• Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Imagination, Earth

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Country, Art

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• He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Needs, World, Apes

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• Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Order, Giving

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.25, Penguin

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

  Charles Darwin

  Wonderful, Structure, Beetles

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.81, Hackett Publishing

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

  Charles Darwin

  Intellectual, Moral, Higher

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7574, Delphi Classics

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• It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc.  All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Old School, Men, Intuition

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