Faculties

Being awake and conscious tends to be associated with having your faculties about you, where the word faculties effectively means your ability to think coherently, to reason things out. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)

For Kant, "the suprasensible destination of all our faculties is the pre-destination of a moral being." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Intelligence, reason, conscience, what we call the faculties of the soul, are of modern date. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Different credit systems in faculties and the apparently "typical" situation of (life-long) professors who act irresponsibly towards their students. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In his analysis of the Critique of Judgment, Deleuze argues that for Kant, the "free accord of the faculties" is discordantly harmonious because it is already determined by reason's legislative role in the moral sphere. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Tenure in law faculties is interrelated with other social sciences, and provides one of the treasures which informs government and politics, as well as training youth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Inasmuch as the virtual beauty of "harmony" and "proportion" said to prevail between the intellect's discrete faculties is to prove vocal, audible, and lasting, the reflexive operation of critical writing is at least one way of producing that outcome. ❋ Unknown (1999)

First, he argues that the condition of possibility for any determinate, legislative relationships between faculties is that these faculties are capable of a free and indeterminate — that is, ❋ Unknown (1997)

NONE of us has lived long without discovering that everything he has he pays for; that every gain has a corresponding loss; that a development even of one of our own faculties, is at the expense of the others. ❋ Unknown (1921)

The keystone of the intellectual faculties is the reason, and George Eliot had a thoroughly logical mind. ❋ Unknown (1893)

He has chosen the subject himself – a pretty fairy story – and told me how he wishes it treated; and I am accordingly working at it under his directions, which I think is, at any rate, showing an amiable desire to please, in faculties grown stiff with nearly seventy years 'wear and tear – used, disused, and misused. ❋ Unknown (1891)

But shadows on shoji are so remarkable as to suggest explanation of certain Japanese faculties of drawing by no means primitive, but developed beyond all parallel, and otherwise difficult to account for. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

WHEN Miss Asphyxia shut the door finally on little Tina the child began slowly to gather up her faculties from the stunning, benumbing influence of the change which had come over her life. ❋ Unknown (1869)

In like manner, all that we call faculties, capacities, and the like, are, in a far deeper sense than the conventional use of the word ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

For the man who weighs the importance of his rational faculties is in some sense more than “reason” and has capacities which transcend the ability to form general concepts.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

For me, blogging is nothing more than an attempt to connect with human beings in a way which stimulates my otherwise dulled mental faculties from a profession which doesn’t challenge them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

By problematizing rhyme in this way, the poem treats it philosophically, drawing attention in a proto-Deleuzean fashion to that element of sense inherent in what one might here call the faculties of articulation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He replied by shouting and waving his flag, to direct assistance to the spot where it was so much required; and, recalling his faculties, which had almost deserted him, he labored mentally to recover hope, and with hope the means and motive for exertion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The name “university” originated in the supposition that these four bodies, termed faculties, constituted a universality of studies; that is to say, that they comprehended all which could be cultivated. ❋ Unknown (2007)