Quotes About Potentiality

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

We all have the capacity to be the best, we just need to use the capacity the best.

But since in men generation is a certain kind of transmutation of one proceeding from potentiality to act, it follows that a man is not equal at first to the father who begets him, but attains to equality by due growth, unless owing to a defect in the principle of generation it should happen otherwise.

Objection 1: It seems that God does not know evil things. For the Philosopher (De Anima iii) says that the intellect which is not in potentiality does not know privation. But "evil is the privation of good," as Augustine says (Confess. iii, 7). Therefore, as the intellect of God is never in potentiality, but is always in act, as is clear from the foregoing (A[2] ), it seems that God does not know evil things.

As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.

El amor es la única vía para llegar a lo más profundo de la personalidad de un hombre. Nadie conoce la esencia de otro ser humano si no lo ama. Por el acto espiritual del amor se contemplan los rasgos esenciales de la persona amada; incluso su potencialidad, lo que aún no ha sido revelado. Aún más: mediante el amor, la persona que ama capacita al amado a actualizar sus posibilidades ocultas. El amor consigue que el otro realice su potencialidad personal.

procreation is nature's principal occupation, and every man, whether he be young or old, when meeting every woman measures the potentiality of sex between them.

The world is before you

It must be a movement then, an actuality of the possible as possible.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

And she had discovered him, discovered in him a rare potentiality, discovered his loneliness.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

In principle, there might be

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

God "has placed in all intellectual beings, as their hidden but primary power, the potentiality of knowing him; ever a generous Lord, he has planted in us lowly men, as part of our nature, the longing and desire for him

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.

Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.