“Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.” ShouldDoeSpiritualExpressionOffersWorkersSatisfactionMediumsFaculty Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.” WorldMayShowsFeelingsFormBeliefLinesAnimalExpressionSucceedHighestDrawsAbsolutesAddIntellectScalesDistinctionFacultyAnimal World Author:Thomas Huxley
“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.” WayDoeIdeasWishCausesLibertyWillingExpressionIndifferenceFree WillFacultyVoidWish YouUnworthyChimeraScholastics Author:Voltaire
“No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the capacities are present, unlike other animals, as far as is known. There's no challenge to the theory - not mine, but everyone's - that the human language faculty provides the means for generation of an infinite array of structured expressions.” IfsHumansMeanChildrenLanguageChallengesAnimalKnownDoubtGenerationsMinesExpressionTheoryCapacityInfiniteFacultyBostonHuman Language Author:Noam Chomsky