“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.” ThinkingInspirationalHumansMaySelfHuman BeingsLevelsBuddhismHigherPerceptionCapableJust OneHigher LevelCognizant 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.” WorldLifeGivingMayStoriesNightUniverseStarsDarkRaceWonderfulBirthCreaturesCapableBlindAccidentsTalesFairyMeaninglessThronesMarvelousGiving BirthCoolingArabianFairy StoriesJinnArabian NightsBrief Life Author:Clarence Day
“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.” MayMadeUseLibertyCapableIllLibertarianArguingLibertarianismBreach 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'.” MenShouldMayMeanBloodCapableOpponentsShedRudeDisputesVindicatedMean 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.” MindHumansMayEnoughShowsCertainBearsCapableSpringWeightAdversityHuman MindVehicleAfflictionLoadedElasticity 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.” MenMaySaidPiecesWifeHusbandCapableServantBelonging 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.” MayTwoRiskCapableKillingBottlesScorpions Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer