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«Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?»
Author: Arthur Helps (Historian, Novelist) | About: Boredom | Keywords: faculties
«If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.»
Author: Chuang Tzu | Keywords: faculties, lucidity, sage, speculum
«Cigarettes dull the faculties, stunt and retard the physical development, unsettle the mind, and rob the persistent user of will power and the ability to concentrate»
«Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity /namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.»
«From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin (Philosopher) | Keywords: faculties
«All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things»
«It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas»
«Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.»
Author: E. M. Forster (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Curiosity | Keywords: at bottom, faculties
«'Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: faculties, filter, filtered, filters
«Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.»

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