Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over intelligence, the literal over the immaterial or complex, materialism over spirituality. This is the result of many years of disrespecting the intellectual project - of a collective acceptance of the idea that thinking and reasoning and reading deeply in difficult text and being respectful of history are somehow "wimpy" or secondary.
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens
When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.
When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.
