#faculties

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. ↗

— Smedley Butler

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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

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There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. ↗

— Francis Wright

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