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“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”

Thinking Inspirational Humans May Self Human Beings Levels Buddhism Higher Perception Capable Just One Higher Level Cognizant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.”

“To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.”

May Made Use Liberty Capable Ill Libertarian Arguing Libertarianism Breach

Author:George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

“Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.”

Men Should May Mean Blood Capable Opponents Shed Rude Disputes Vindicated Mean Man

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.”

Mind Humans May Enough Shows Certain Bears Capable Spring Weight Adversity Human Mind Vehicle Affliction Loaded Elasticity

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.”

Men May Said Pieces Wife Husband Capable Servant Belonging

Author:John Dryden

“We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”

May Two Risk Capable Killing Bottles Scorpions

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.”

May Sometimes Lying Humanity Individual Tree Capable

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through.”

Men May Earth Spirit Sleep Break Darkness Alive Capable Shame Chains Break Through Anthem Prometheus

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.”

Should May Said Individual Natural Becoming Capable Absolutes

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable. But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.”

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:

“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”

Source: Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.”

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.”

May Happiness Success Fall Results Worry Our Lives Failing Danger Anxiety Capable Ideals Dignity Our Society Modest Conform Pernicious Dignity And Respect

Author:Alain de Botton

“It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.”

May Passion Animal Mankind Capable Exciting Horse Hopeless Recreation

Author:Bret Harte

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.”

“Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."”

People Ifs May Helping Realizing Levels Ought Messages Capable Negative Treats Expected Absorbing True Potential

Author:Daniel J. Siegel

“He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.”

May Art Said Capable Perfection Excellence Productions Height Transcendent

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.”

Ifs May Shows Law Culture Growth Shapes Capable Length Casting Resisting Stature Impediments Casting Off

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

“Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.”

Source: Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected by James Prior

“A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.”

Mind Firsts May Body Capable Structure Gentleman Characteristics Sensations Delicate

Book:pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

“One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in the possibility of miracles without believing that every reported miracle must in fact have happened.”

Believe May Facts Religion Happened Possibility Capable Miracle Believe In God

Author:Robert M. Price

“I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship.”

World May Persons Soul Friendship Capable Proof Funeral Tenderness Endearment

Author:Katherine Philips

“All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.”

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.”

“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”

Thinking Knows Men World Giving May Lasts Culture Black Race Virtue Conditions Circumstances Civilization Capable Surprise Oppressed Last Words

Author:Marcus Garvey

“They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.”

May Matter Principles Virtue Habit Capable Ordinary Capacity Customs Virtuous

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.”

May Country Easy Difficult Groups Circumstances Capable Extraordinary Iran Grants Stood Up Successors Ethnic Groups Yugoslavia Tito

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.”

Source: Prejudices Second Series

“The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.”

Mind May Pleasure Rich Mankind Industry Capable Claims Privilege Intellect Senses Enjoyment Relief Temporary Exclusive Forgetfulness Luxurious Temporary Relief

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.”

Ifs Mind Humans May Moments Might Happens Next Human Beings Space Worry Clear Meditation Impossible Happened Events Capable Yoga Careful Instant Consideration Present Moment

Author:H. E Davey

“Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.”

Humans May Found Human Beings Materials Capable Environmental Dues Substance Pollution Degradation Ecosystems Intrusion Environmental Degradation

Author:Barry Commoner

“As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.”

Thinking World May Lying Lost My Own Teacher Office Capable Sick Teenager Being The Best Nurse Headphones My Own World Best Day Ever

Author:Wesley Eisold

“A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.”

Men Mind May Long Lasts Dies Knowing Ignorance Capable Certainty

Book:Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

Source: Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

“Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.”

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.”

May Company Principles Practice Dangerous Capable Consequence Gains Trade Extraordinary Occasions Strict Banking Speculation Flattering Strict Rules

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.”

Men Mind May Made Action Past Study Wise Capable Errors Improvement Pursuit Fallen Folly Retrospect Credulity Great Minds

Book:Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

Source: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

“The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.”

“It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.”

Men May Soul Body Moral Impossible Willing Capable Happenings Miracle Wings Add

Book:Life and destiny

Source: Life and destiny

“You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.”

Ifs Heart May Names Religious Meditation Divine Fit Holy Worship Capable Symbols Cooks Vegetables Dishes Soup Divine Love Vessel Vow Pilgrimage Poisonous Tin Copper Right Conduct

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.”

Men May Shows Desire Levels Honor Capable Sitting Excellence Delight Appearance Related Ecstasy Dishes Unworthy Radiance Level Headed

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.”

May Decision Situation Leader Style Needed Capable Relation Supportive

Author:John W. Gardner

“We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with God, some more, some less. He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then.”

Knows Heart May Can Do Humility Conversation Capable And Love Familiar Retiring Converses Meekness Oratory Conversations With God

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims

“Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.”

Source: RFK: collected speeches

“I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown.”

Knows Looks May Stills Done Running Capable Balls

Author:Clinton Portis

“It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.”

May Said Character Levels Capable Concepts Universal Yield

Author:Muhammad Iqbal

“I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.”

Believe May Said Bigs Universe I Believe Felt Understanding Capable I Believe In Big Things Insignificant

Author:Stephen Hawking

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