Faculty Quotes

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

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.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

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.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.