Mental Power Quotes - Page 2

• Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Selfish, Opportunity, Government

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• El yogin se hace consciente en parte de la acción del poder supramental que organiza el vehículo inferior (ādhāra). Una parte de él permanece tras el velo y se prepara.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Veils, Action, Vehicle

  Fuente: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Average, Organization

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 274), 1964.

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• A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.

  David Papineau

  Smart, Order, Way

  "Físico". Entrevista con Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. 8 de abril de 2013.

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• What we really need to understand here is that it`s all about power. This is where the surge is coming from for Bernie Sanders. In some ways, it`s a very different - it`s a different surge, but it`s coming out of the same sort of sense of fundamental powerlessness and anger and frustration for Donald Trump.

  Robert Reich

  Frustration, Different, Needs

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• It's true that the level of scientific knowledge among adults is very low, but that's not because there isn't a natural interest. I think most kids are fascinated by the natural world. I've often said that if you could quantify the mental power involved in all the dinosaur names correctly known and correctly spelled by 5-year-old kids in America, you could move any mountain on earth.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Moving, Kids, Thinking

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Political, Needs

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Night, Age, Lamps

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

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• Aunque nos refiramos al Tribunal Penal Internacional, el verdadero problema es el fiscal, porque es él quien decide a quién investigar y qué casos presentar. Este tribunal encarnaba fundamentalmente un potencial de abuso de poder gubernamental que yo consideraba incoherente con el hecho de ser una persona libre -y [era] incoherente que un país libre como Estados Unidos lo suscribiera.

  John Bolton

  País, Real, Abuso

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

  Federico Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Block

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• Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Unique, Technique

  Benjamin Graham (1959). "El inversor inteligente: Un libro de consejos prácticos"

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• Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Solitude, Dull

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.45, Victor Hugo

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• Hay una tendencia inherente en todo poder gubernamental a no reconocer ninguna restricción en su funcionamiento y a extender la esfera de su dominio tanto como sea posible. Controlarlo todo, no dejar espacio para que nada suceda por sí mismo sin la interferencia de las autoridades, ese es el objetivo por el que todo gobernante se esfuerza secretamente.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Goal, Dominion, Rooms

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Heart, Greatness, Men

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• Es una monstruosidad obligar a un niño a aprender latín o griego o matemáticas con el argumento de que son una gimnasia indispensable para las facultades mentales. Sería monstruoso aunque fuera cierto.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Latin, Learning

  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.2005, e-artnow

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• Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Brain, Age, Machines

  "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.

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• La Constitución fue concebida fundamentalmente como un baluarte contra el poder gubernamental, y evitar la administración arbitraria del castigo es un ideal básico de cualquier sociedad que pretenda regirse por el Estado de Derecho.

  William J. Brennan

  Law, Punishment, Arbitrary

  "McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279". Dissenting opinion, 1987.

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• No se puede obtener poder mental de cerebros mal alimentados.

  Herbert Spencer

  Brain, Feds, Ill

  Herbert Spencer (1919). "Filosofía sintética ..."

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• Otra cosa muy distinta es que un buscador, insatisfecho por el materialismo y las doctrinas, y anhelando apoyo espiritual, pida consejo e información a un adepto. En tal caso, el adepto está obligado a proporcionar al buscador luz y perspicacia espirituales, de acuerdo con sus facultades mentales. Entonces el mago no debe escatimar tiempo ni esfuerzos para comunicar sus tesoros espirituales y conducir al buscador hacia la luz.

  Franz Bardon

  Espiritual, Dolor, Luz

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• It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Views, Brain

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle of the ether, you can call it. It is the subtle of the matter. It is the subtle of your emotions. It is the subtle of your mental power. It is the subtle of your evolutionary power, but all integrated and coordinated in complete synchronization.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Amor, Sabiduría, Yoga

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• Algunos defensores de un poder y un gasto gubernamentales cada vez mayores inventan la teoría de que los contribuyentes, abandonados a sí mismos, gastan el dinero que han ganado muy tontamente, en todo tipo de trivialidades y basura, y que sólo los burócratas, al arrebatárselo primero, sabrán cómo gastarlo sabiamente.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Campeón, Basura, Primeros

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). "Man Vs. the Welfare State", p.210, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.

  J.A. Redmerski

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• We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Memories, Long, Risk

  Nicholas G. Carr (2010). “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Age, Literature, May

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.67, The Floating Press

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