What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York and Singapore and Lhasa and Stepney Green are all as real as the p...
We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.
You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless(...)
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
