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Source: Science and the Modern World

“Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.”

Source: The House of Intellect

“Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.”

Love Effort Intellect Stuck Ass Mud Alone In Love

Author:Rumi

“In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”

Art Culture Energy Criticism Intellect Revenge Sensual Interpretation Expenses Capability Dilemma

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.”

Knows Feels Has Beens Young Joy Mother Sex Process Instinct Intellect Supreme Hardship Virgins Faded Virginity Deprivation Young Mother

Book:The journal of Arnold Bennett

Source: The journal of Arnold Bennett

“There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.”

Break Failing Limits Down And Intellect Arise Immortality Breaking Down

Author:Immanuel Kant

“To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.”

Humans Two God Existence Essence Relation Creator Intellect Forbidden

Author:Muhammad Abduh

“If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.”

Ifs Littles Bigs Seems Winning Nature Simple Poor Behinds Consciousness Easier Intellect Little Things Waking Measuring Lag Marveling

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.”

Principles Practice Understood Intellect Neglect

Book:The Spirits’ Book: The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine

Source: The Spirits’ Book: The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine

“Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.”

Has Beens Body Humor Funny Boys Fool Ears Intellect Foolishness Purses Humourous

Author:S. J. Perelman

“Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.”

Spiritual Limits Intellectual Intellect Limitation Realms Spiritual Life Scope Prowess

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities.”

“Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.”

Needs Giving Heart Kids Equal Importance Educational Intellect Educational System

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.”

Ifs Years Lasts Science Desire Answers Integrity Let Me Intellect Accepted Honour Biographies Royal

Author:Michael Faraday

“Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.”

Wells Body Intellect Chiropractic Abnormality

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.”

Way Heart Art Ideas Form Lying Understanding Emotion Attention Media Emotional Degrees Findings Mass Intellect Propaganda Broads Mass Media Mein Kampf

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.”

Way Reason Commitment University Intellect Dedicated

Book:Point of View: Talks on Education

Source: Point of View: Talks on Education

“People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.”

People Knows Want Seems Desire Intellect Superiors

Author:F. Murray Abraham

“It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.”

Should Humans Wells May Character Stories Seems Spirit Imagination Vision Adventure Drama Intellect Narrative Historian Portraits Human Spirit Incidents

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.”

People Use Intellectual Intellect

Author:Tadao Ando

“What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.”

Should Important Rooms Doubt Percent Conviction Intellect

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.”

“In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.”

Art Science Purpose Pleasure Emotion Intellect Appeals Instruction Paramount

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.”

Science Desire Delight Intellect Proof Command Charm Evoke Amen Overpowering

Author:John William Strutt

“The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.”

Men Has Beens Hands Might Science Names Masters Curiosity Various Intellect Expected Doctrine Being True Provoking Plague Dominion Hegel Cholera Incompatibility Bubonic Plague

Author:Wilfred Trotter

“Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.”

Trying Mind Two Feelings Body Would Be Together Intellect Distinction Mind And Body Integrated Soma

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.”

Book Mother Three Pay Brother Computer Pages Intellect Quarters Cents Three Brothers

Author:Josh Holloway

“Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.”

Way Culture Levels Communication Intellect Radical Primaries Visuals Eighty Starving Furious Radical Change Visual Images

Author:Caroline Knapp

“Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.”

Compassion Taken Fronts Tvs Eating Cat Unions Intelligence Careful Intellect Be Careful

Author:Vera Nazarian

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