#faculties

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. ↗

— Giacomo Puccini

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The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. ↗

— William Hamilton

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[...] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people. I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. ↗

— Robert Henri

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I want to have all of my faculties. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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

— Edward Albee

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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