Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!). . . . Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors