„We have now but to prove a third attribute: I mean the faculty of feeling“
Zdroj: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter
Kontext: We have now but to prove a third attribute: I mean the faculty of feeling which the philosophers of all centuries have found in this same substance.... [T]he Cartesians have made, in vain, to rob matter of this faculty. But in order to avoid insurmountable difficulties, they have flung themselves into a labyrinth from which they have thought to escape by this absurd system "that animals are pure machines."
An opinion so absurd has never gained admittance among philosophers... Experience gives us no less proof of the faculty of feeling in animals than of feeling in men.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie5
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— Julien Offray de La Mettrie French physician and philosopher 1709 - 1751
Zdroj: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter
— James O. Fraser missionary to China, inventor of Tibeto-Burman Nosu alphabet 1886 - 1938
1922 Source: Geraldine Taylor. Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser. Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., 1998, 269.
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Zdroj: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 98
— Terese Marie Mailhot First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, teacher 1983
On being hospitalized for depression in “Terese Mailhot: Truth Is My Aesthetic” https://www.guernicamag.com/terese-mailhot-truth-is-my-aesthetic/ in Guernica Magazine (2018 Mar 21)
— Luther Burbank American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science 1849 - 1926
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 1 Plant Breeding
— William Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy
Zdroj: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 209.
— Fred Astaire American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter 1899 - 1987
from Astaire's autobiography Steps in Time, 1959, p. 325.
— Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802), kniha Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Zdroj: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 231
Kontext: Now it is possible that wants and the exercise of faculties have entered in some manner into the production of the phenomena which we have been considering; but certainly not in the way suggested by Lamarck, whose whole notion is obviously so inadequate to account for the rise of the organic kingdoms, that we only can place it with pity among the follies of the wise.
— Lancelot Law Whyte Scottish industrial engineer 1896 - 1972
The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)
— Benjamin Peirce American mathematician 1809 - 1880
On Euler's identity, <math>e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0. \,\!</math> as quoted in notes by W. E. Byerly, published in Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880 : Biographical Sketch and Bibliography (1925) by R. C. Archibald; also in Mathematics and the Imagination (1940) by Edward Kasner and James Newman.
„What is my ruling faculty now to me?“
— Marcus Aurelius, kniha Hovory k sobě
X, 24
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Kontext: What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?
— Brigitte Lin Taiwanese actress 1954
As quoted in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018) https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2018/05/15/2003693091
— Xanana Gusmão former President and Prime Minister of East Timor 1946
Xanana Gusmão (2019) cited in: " An interview with "Xanana" Gusmao http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/1999/11/13/0000010511" in Taipei Times, 13 November 1999.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams English composer 1872 - 1958
"The Letter and the Spirit", in the journal Music and Letters, vol. 1 (1920) p. 88.
„Prove that you have human feelings,
Ere you proudly question ours!“
— William Cowper (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731 - 1800
Zdroj: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 55-56
— Ted Haggard American minister 1956
[Haggard, Ted, Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life, Regal Books, September 2002, p. 110, ISBN 0830730559]