you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.
You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.
Poetry is that which arrives at the intellect by way of the heart.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Your choice of armor was your intellect.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come with your body, to offer it as a living sacrifice upon His altar. Come with your soul and all its powers, and yield them in willing consecration to your God and Saviour. Come, bring them all along-everything, body, soul, intellect, imagination, acquirements-all, without reserve.
Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.