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  • Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

    Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.113
  • It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.

    Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”
  • Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

    Rights   Order   Would Be  
  • ...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

    Men   Creative   Divinity  
  • The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

    Lying   Love Is   Fire  
    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)
  • Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

    Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press
  • Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

    Home   Rights   Community  
    Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press
  • The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.

    Rights   Law   Community  
  • The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.

    Space   Waste   Flaws  
    James Clerk Maxwell (1998). “Escritos científicos”, p.79, Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
  • Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

    Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.90, Hackett Publishing
  • The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

    Lying   Hero   Heart  
    International Herald Tribune, February 21, 1990.
  • Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

    Life   Men   Spheres  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.145
  • We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

    People   Energy   Climate  
    "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.
  • Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

    Sad   Stupid   Silly  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.36, Penguin
  • When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

    Struggle   Giving   Enemy  
  • But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

  • When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius

  • All human power is a compound of time and patience.

    Time   Power   Compounds  
    Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.141, The Floating Press
  • Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

    Life   Love Is   Flames  
    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)
  • Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

    Home   Rights   Progress  
    Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.
  • You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

    Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1768, Barbour Publishing
  • Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

    Work   Self   Hands  
  • Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.

    Christian   Men   Limits  
  • There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.

  • The gift of creating new life needs to be, once again, welcomed and honoured as one of the most mysterious of human powers. And women need to be confirmed in their decisions to use this power however and whenever they see fit.

  • Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

    Slavery   Yoke   Weak  
  • The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in human consciousness, nothing will change for the better, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed will be unavoidable.

  • Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

  • It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

    "Lectures on Education".
  • Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

    Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.58
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