“Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.”

“Environment, education, experience, make men conscious of passing reality but overwhelm their intuitive capacity when this is not very strong.”

“Your capacity to own something is your capacity to change something.”

“The human capacity for denial and rationalization is always shocking, but never surprising.”

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”

“As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.”

“There are no such things as limits to growth, because there
are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence,
imagination, and wonder.”

“In summary, it is the diversity of human behavior, its appropriateness to new situations, and man’s capacity to innovate – the creative aspect of language use providing the principal indication of this –that leads Descartes to attribute possession of mind to other humans, since he regards this capacity as beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism.”

“We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”

“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it”