#incapable

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. ↗

— Hu Shih

#europe #even #experience #history #incapable

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#collective #constitutionally #corpses #incapable #producing

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ↗

— John Sterling

#instinct #intelligence #self-consciousness

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. ↗

— Andy Stern

#america #congress #country #deal #does

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#although #been #determined #either #folly

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film. ↗

— John Denver

#film #i #incapable #know

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#definition #examines #facts #historian #incapable

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#censorship #creates #defeats #discretion #end

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#censorship #creates #defeats #discretion #end