#incapable

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#daily #daily lives #dependent #incapable #little

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#further #going #himself #how #incapable

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#beauty #best #commitment #incapable #lasting

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#incapable #must #never #proof #which

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#arrangement #arriving #being #certain #decisions

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. ↗

— Hu Shih

#europe #even #experience #history #incapable

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#collective #constitutionally #corpses #incapable #producing

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#am #conceiving #i #i am #i do

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#incapable #intellectuals #like #many #saying