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“When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.”

“The brain is the citadel of sense perception.”

Brain Perception Intellect Citadels Sense Perception

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.”

World Philosophy Truth Faces Walks Creative Progress Stage Perception Discovery Intellect Height Simplest Awakened Luminous Walks Of Life

Book:Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses

Source: Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses

“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

“The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .”

Ifs Way Soul Reason Growth Alive Movement Perception Plant Connected Intellect Instance Decay Distinguished Nourishment Spatial

Author:Aristotle

“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.”

“Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.”

Passion Powerful Power Perception Horse Intellect Plato

Author:Raymond Cattell

“Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.”

Ifs Knows Way Doe Happens Judging Judgment Perception Intuition Intellect Imperfection Intuitive Cognition

Book:Philosophical Writings: A Selection

Source: Philosophical Writings: A Selection

“This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.”

Should Has Beens Memories Forget Results Clear Judging Perception Following Intellect Never Forget Impress Deliberate Could Have Been Forget It Following Rules

Book:Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

“A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.”

Soul Subjects Calling Perception Deeper Intellect Recognition Sensory Sensory Perception

Author:Gary Zukav

“Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.”

Knows Life Needs Feels Mind Important Feelings Happiness Emotion Education Know How Perception Entrepreneur Intellect Educated Touching Responding

Author:Jim Rohn

“Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.”

Ifs Found Perception Intellect Senses

Author:Michael Servetus

“If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.”

Ifs Needs Heart Use Eye Understanding Knowledge Perception Intellectual Ears Insight Intuition Intellect Taoism Wise Man Once Said Pierce

Author:Zhuangzi

“Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.”

People Ends Eye Results Pay Attention Opinion Ought Perception Concern Intellect Arise Pay Attention Demonstration Assertion Prudent Older People Nicomachean Ethics

Author:Aristotle