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Letter "P" » potentiality
«By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.»
Author: Ashley Montagu
| Keywords:
development, fulfillment, human development, potentialities, potentiality
«Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them»
Author: Karl Jaspers
| About:
Conflict
| Keywords:
conflicts, engender, Engendered, engendering, far-reaching, flourish, limitation, potentiality, reaching, sources, tensions
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
| Keywords:
arbitrary, contrasting, diverse, fabric, fitting, fittings, gamut, human culture, potentialities, potentiality, richer, rich in, weave
«From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
confronts, destroying, enterprise, mainly, Mother The, on the whole, potentialities, potentiality, subjected, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Potential
| Keywords:
crank, cranked, Cranks, driving, driving force, potentiality, weak spot
«Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Potential
| Keywords:
impotence, potentiality
«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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, potentiality, recorded, stays
«Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
clues, clue in, myths, potentialities, potentiality, spiritual, The Spiritual
«Every being in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses. Even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure. There is no such thing as failure in the universe.»
«If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
fulfill, organism, potentialities, potentiality
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