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“The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.”

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Book:De Quincey's Writings: Theological essays and other papers. 1854

Source: De Quincey's Writings: Theological essays and other papers. 1854

“The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.”

Humans Progress Intellect Chiefs Engines Human Progress

Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.”

“Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.”

“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.”

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Author:Krista Tippett

“We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.”

Men Humans Faith Causes Doubt Achievement Highest Intellect Hiding Sincerity Our Thoughts

Book:Mythologies

Source: Mythologies

“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.”

“One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.”

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Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

“Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.”

Humans Delight Intellect Range Discourse Admirable

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism”

Humans Self Criticism Intellect Self Criticism

Book:Stray Reflections: The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal

Source: Stray Reflections: The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal

“Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.”

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Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life