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“We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.”

Thinking Function Intellect Participating

Book:The William James Reader

Source: The William James Reader

“The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.”

May Mean Pleasure Circumstances Function Intellect Reactions Secure Welfare Symptoms Modifying

Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”

Art Form Three Perfect Emotion Balance Art Is Function Stress Intellect Primaries Dimensions Strain Living Things Reduction Miniatures Microcosm Perfect Balance Three Dimensions

Author:Lawren Harris

“There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.”

Soul Care Spirit Order Imagination Church Function Curiosity University Intellect Enthusiasm Immortal Priests Who Cares Props Immortal Soul

Book:The progress of a biographer

Source: The progress of a biographer

“If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.”

Ifs Humans Force Effort Creative Function Claims Lays Patterns Intellect Cease Reasoning Monopoly

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.”

Ifs Stills Matter Science Names Sweet Buddhism Function Rose Intellect Smell Convenient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.”

Soul Facts Action Desire Three Animal Virtue Special Elements Capable Function Intellect Related Faculty Sensations Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.”

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.”

Ideas Realizing Taste Function Intellect Active Senses Former Latter Faculty Passive

Book:The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments

Source: The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments

“The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.”

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.”

Knows Soul Universal Function Assuming Intellect

Author:Peter Adamson

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”

“If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.”

Ifs Men Humans Problem Wisdom Order Destiny Function Intelligence Solve Intellect

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset