Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
Quotes about incapacity (16 Quotes)
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.
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.
We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
The fact is that there are few more 'popular' subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances may suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Imam al-Ghazali God is much too great for the senses to reach Him or for reason and logic to plumb the depths of His Majesty. Indeed, He is much too great for anyone but Himself to plumb the depths of His Majesty or for anyone but Himself to know Him. Verily, no one knows God but God. The highest degree of gnosis that His servants can attain is the realization that true gnostic knowledge of Him is impossible for them. Furthermore, no one can know that in its totality except a Prophet of a righteous saint (siddiq). As for the Prophet, he has clearly expressed this by saying, 'I cannot enumerate the ways of praising Thee Thou art as Thou has praised Thyself.' As for the righteous saint, he says, 'The incapacity to attain realization is a realization.'