Quotes About Faculty

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

We consider that God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to the intellect.

In the mind there is no absolute faculty of willing and not willing, but only of particular volitions, namely, this or that affirmation, or this or that negation."50 We do suspend our belief in some ideas, in a manner of speaking, Spinoza allows. But what this really means is that we affirm some other idea—namely, that the first idea is uncertain.

The greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to break apart and compartmentalise. It's how we juggle multiple demands, and how we cope with pain and trauma.

A deep commitment to general education is impossible in a context in which faculty and students prize above all their ability to teach and study what they want.

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding. It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.

Academia ar trebui s? fie un institut eminamente filozofic - Doar o unic? facultate - întreg a?ez?mântul organizat în vederea stimul?rii ?i exers?rii adecvate a for?ei de gândire.

It's a faculty absolutely unique to man—having secrets.

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

self-protective withdrawal from candidates who are perceived as particularly privileged or untouchable, and "compassionate graduation" of inadequately performing candidates who have remained in training for many years are other typical symptoms of the failure to invest adequate authority in the faculty body.

lack of explicit criteria for the appointment of faculty in general, and the lack of explicit policies and criteria for the quality control of faculty functioning, particularly of training analysts' functioning, reflects the political nature of these appointments. The avoidance

monotonous repetition of concepts that, by the same token; also reassure the faculty that nothing new is threatening their

Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be At1 = At2.

Smell is the only faculty that accesses the limbic instantly. All other stimuli take longer to register, hence, the importance of odors.

Imagination, not reason, is the chief faculty of the soul.

Memory plays an essential part in this process of working out a sat-isfactory relationship between past and present. It is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling the past. But it is a faculty that functions in a wide range of ways. Memory can operate comprehensively or selectively, more or less accurately, more or less honestly. It is always accompanied, moreover, by forgetting and invariably supplemented by invention.

Blindness and madness punish the hubris of the man who possesses and employs a faculty for knowledge not given to other men.

And its strong continuing religious beliefs were an indication of how widespread the faculty was, granting the "supernatural" events a respectable orthodoxy.