I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.
No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
Freud. . . showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.
Faith. . . that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution. . . . I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all.
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.
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.
God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.
Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.