“Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.” FirstsAgeChurchChristianityMiddleIntellectualWestUniversityParisEmpiresMiddle AgesRoman EmpireOxfordCambridgeRoman CivilizationCambridge University Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.” FirstsYoungImagineMinesIntellectualMagazinesArticlesEssaysYoung Writers Author:Ross Douthat
“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.” FirstsLooksKindArtArtistPiecesEmotionalIntellectualFirst TimeCombinationSomething New Author:Cheech Marin
“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.” FirstsSoulFeelingsBodySpiritualSpiritualityEnergyUnderstandingTermHigherIntellectualIntuitionIntellectGuidanceHigher PowerSpiritual AwarenessSpiritual Energy Author:Christiane Northrup
“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.” FirstsFeelingsBodyUnderstandingIntellectualGuidanceHigher Power Author:Christiane Northrup
“I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.” FirstsMadeTwoTogetherForceConflictLimitsIntellectualThirdsCriticalFourthFormalContradictoryRight Words Author:Dylan Thomas