Henri Bergson
Philosopher
"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
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Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted."
Charlotte Bronte
Novelist, Poet
"Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal."
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage"
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties."
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"There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties"
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"The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal."
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"If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind."
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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."
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"To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response."
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"The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers."
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"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
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"Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself."
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"Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe."
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"Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being."
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"A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome."
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"He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy."
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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something."
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"In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture."
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"With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her."
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"All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical."
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"We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days."
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"You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles."
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"Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."
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"I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation."
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