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“Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.”

“The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences." This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is... especially important in psychology... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.”

Important Purpose Values Humanity Language Social Behinds Psychology Movement Discipline Deny Screens Social Science Valuation

Author:Thomas Szasz

“[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.”

Men Mind Humanity Discipline Majority Instinct Intuition Rhythm Inevitable Motor Identification Incessant Metallic

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists, and there are the humanities people, and there are chemists and the physicists and everybody snipes at everybody else and inter-disciplinary communication is rare. But it's very precious and necessary.”

People Problem America Humanity Communication Discipline Scientist Assuming Australia Physicist Biting Chemist Parochialism

Author:Richard Lewontin

“... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.”

Kind Children Humanity Family Wife Discipline

Author:Francis Bacon

“Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?”

Humanity Grows Planets Materials Discipline Demand Limits Appearance Tendencies Despite Arrogance Delusion Toughness

Author:Lynn Margulis

“The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.”

Stills Humanity Speak Prayer Silence Break Our Lives Becoming Discipline Holy Activity Down And Noise Contemplation Stopping Slow Down Reminding Break Through Slowing God's Presence

Author:Jim Wallis

“I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effort to figure out how people lived in an era that is not yours. And in that understanding of people from a different era, I feel, is an important gateway into humanity. Because you understand human behavior. In order to understand humanity, history is important.”

People Needs Feels Humans Important Different Humanity Order Understanding Imagination Effort Figures Discipline Behavior Eras Human Behavior Imaginative Gateways Different Eras

Author:Sarnath Banerjee

“Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.”

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Book:Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.”

“One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.”