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Tag Name "Potentialities" (50)

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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
Vaclav Havel
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The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.
Thomas I. Emerson
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Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.
Walter Gropius
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Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?
Dorothy Norman
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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
Aldous Huxley
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I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.
Alban Berg
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The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.
Ferdinand Foch
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The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.
Paul Goodman
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
Maria Montessori
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[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
Werner Heisenberg
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We can set no limit to human potentialities all that is best in man can be bettered it is not a question of producing a highly efficient machine, ... but of quickening all the distinctly human features, all that is best in man, all the different qualities, some obvious, some infinitely subtle, which we recognize as humanly excellent.
Ronald Fisher
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I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
John Tukey
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I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.
James Agee
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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 human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead
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True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
Bertrand Russell
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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
Joseph Campbell
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Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.
Roger Housden
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We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
Jean Toomer
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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.
Ashley Montagu
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
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No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.
Ruth Benedict
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Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.
James Jeans
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