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  • Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

    Math   Names   People  
    G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press
  • Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

    Fate   Actors   Spirit  
    Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company
  • [The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.

  • Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

  • A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

    Men   Long   Doe  
    Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.63, BookCaps Study Guides
  • This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

    Able   Firsts   Greedy  
  • Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

    "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.
  • In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

    Life   Stress   Fall  
    Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”
  • What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

    Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.180, Vintage
  • Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

    Pride   Doors   Dust  
  • What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

    Men   Bears   Philosopher  
    Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.118, Beacon Press
  • The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

    Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.29, Transaction Publishers
  • Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"

  • Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

  • Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

    Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”
  • Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

  • The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

  • In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

    Dark   Sanctuary   Able  
    Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.380, Oxford Paperbacks
  • Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand. As soon as you cannot carry out this exercise you are reaching a dangerous state of incapacity and you should immediately take steps to warm up.

    Exercise   Hands   People  
  • My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

    Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.154, Vintage
  • Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.

    Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books
  • The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

    John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
  • I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

    Greatness   Want   Facts  
    Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”
  • A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”
  • close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

  • You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

    Long   Office   President  
  • The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

    Funny   Stupidity   Merit  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1111, e-artnow
  • There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

    Player   Speech   Action  
  • Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.

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