#incapacity

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. ↗

— William Blake

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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#cultures #incapacity #insistence #measuring #other

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#incapacity #kill #may #our #ourselves

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#guidance #immaturity #incapacity #intelligence #use

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#incapacity #indignity #pain #personal

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#confess #etc #failed #faults #his

We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right. ↗

— David Cameron

#cannot #country #go #half #i

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ↗

— Anais Nin

#incapacity #only #to love

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#pain #strong #worse

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle. ↗

— Robert Browning

#incapacity #power #will #men