Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i. e. , he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.
What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.
We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are direct transcriptions of me blathering over dinner with a glass of wine in my hand. I don't hold any illusion of those conversations being of particular value. The books, though, are - I hope - bigger than my opinions, investigations that go beyond my own intellect or wit.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.
'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we only wise when it comes to electing people capable of governing our affairs, but wholly without the intellect to decide issues for ourselves?
With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.
The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.