faculties quotes

American critics are like American universities†both have dull and half-dead faculties.

- Edward Franklin, III Albee
  Speech to the NewYork Cultural League. Reported in news summaries, 6 Nov.

From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish, sincerely and energetically. See Marx 558:14.

- Mikhail Alekseyevich Bakunin
  Anarchists'declaration, signed by the 47 defendants after the failed uprising in Lyons.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, preciselyas men would suffer†it is thoughtless to condem them, or laugh at them, if they seek to domorethancustomhas pronounced necessary for their sex.

- Charlotte Bronte« 
  Jane Eyre, ch.12.

   I no longer wonder the elegant arts are unknown here; the rigor of the climate suspends the very powers of the understanding; what then must become of those of the imagination?† Geniuswill never mount high, wherethe faculties of the mind are benumbed half the year.

- Frances ne  e Moore Brooke
  The History of Emily Montague,'Letter 49'.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which ourdull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive formsthis knowledge, this feeling, isatthe centerof true religiousness.In thissense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

- Albert Einstein
Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: HisLife and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of those faculties is the first object of government.

-James Madison
  The Federalist, Nov.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

-John Stuart Mill
  The Subjection of  Women, ch.3.

La force de l'esprit ne se de  veloppe toute entie'  re qu'en attaquant la puissance. The mind fully develops its faculties when it attacks power.

- Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stae«  l
  De la litte  rature considere  re  e dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

-James Grover Thurber
  In the NewYorker, 2 Aug.