“People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.” PeopleHumansKindWholeUseHandsHuman BeingsExerciseActivitySkillsJudgmentLogicAll KindsBehaveFacultyThinkerManualsKnittingEnhancement Author:Rudolf Steiner
“Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.” MenWorldLoveHumansReasonWholeLove IsObjectsEmbraceFacultyRestrictionOrientation Book:Sane Society Ils 252 Source: Sane Society Ils 252
“To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.” HumansTasteResponseOneselfFaculty Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.” KnowsMenMindHumansJesusChristKnow HowMysteryJesus ChristFacultyHuman MindClaySubjection Author:Brigham Young
“God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.” HumansHeartMightCommonSecretShareHuman NatureSpeechNeighborGrantedFacultyTreasuryRecess Author:Saint Basil