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“He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.”

Reason Use Memories Authority Intellect Reasoning Citing

Book:Thoughts on Art and Life:

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:

“The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.”

Term Imagination Memories Judgment Perception Intellect Acquire

Book:The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students

Source: The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students

“A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.”

Persons Made Able Strong Imagination Memories Quality Morality Promise Intellect Pity Tied Good Memories

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.”

Memories Poor Judgment Weak Intellect Complaining Poor Memory

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.”

Thinking Feels Humans Mean Body Process Memories Human Beings Emotion Shapes Intellect Stores

Author:Colin Farrell