It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.
The powers of nature are so great, and our power is so inept. So,in order to cope with the incredible anxiety that human self-consciousness produced, I think we created God in our own image, and then portrayed this God as having supernatural power that we didn't have.
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.
People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends.
If I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so. . . " "Lame?" Sadie suggested. "Shut up," I said.
We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.