#faculties

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? ↗

— Arthur Helps

#boredom #dying #faculties #less #sense

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#breath #capture #converge #faculties #fleeting

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#best #faculties #force #great #men

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. ↗

— John Haggai

#endeavor #energies #faculties #field #focus

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#common #doing #done #faculties #genius

I want to have all of my faculties. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #want

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

#faculties #gives #god #humor #i

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

— Edward Albee

#both #critics #dull #faculties #like

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. ↗