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potentialities
«By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.»
Author: Ashley Montagu
| Keywords:
development, fulfillment, human development, potentialities, potentiality
«Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?»
«Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.»
Author: John Foster Dulles
(Secretary)
| Keywords:
at peace, mobilize, mobilizing, potentialities, reserve
«For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: ''I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.''»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
buds, chemistry, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, fiery, flashes, glint, granite, indefinite, mica, Moses, mount, Mount Sinai, potentialities, represented, Sinai, swell, torn
«Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
capacities, creativeness, embryonic, humanness, inchoate, potentialities, shaped
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
| Keywords:
arbitrary, contrasting, diverse, fabric, fitting, fittings, gamut, human culture, potentialities, potentiality, richer, rich in, weave
«From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
confronts, destroying, enterprise, mainly, Mother The, on the whole, potentialities, potentiality, subjected, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| About:
Potential
| Keywords:
attractiveness, gripped, gripping, grips, potentialities
«Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
clues, clue in, myths, potentialities, potentiality, spiritual, The Spiritual
«If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
fulfill, organism, potentialities, potentiality
