Intellect Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Rome, Progress

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Three, Entertainment

  "In These Great Times". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, p. 74, 1976.

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• The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, pp. 15 - 16, 2000.

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• Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Morality, Defects

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.219

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• If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Years, Age

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1875). “Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.66

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Delight, Range, Admirable

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• To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.

  John Ruskin

  People, Feelings, Mind

  "Modern Painters". Book by John Ruskin. Volume III, part IV, chapter XVI, 1856.

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• The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.

  Maimonides

  Character, Men, Law

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1116, Moses Maimonides

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• A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

  Antonin Artaud

  Would Be, Investigation, Faculty

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.483, Univ of California Press

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• Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Extras, Practicals

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage

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• We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.

  Mark Hopkins

  Philosophy, Giving, Mind

  Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.136

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• A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

  Anthony Storr

  Marriage, Expression, Giving

  Anthony Storr (1961). “The Integrity of the Personality”

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• The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Running, Intelligent, Intellectual

  Ralph Barton Perry (1918). “The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War”

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• 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.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Effort, Creative, Patterns

  "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, "What is 'Social'? - What Does it Mean" (ch. 17), 1967.

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• Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.

  Giordano Bruno

  Wise, Men, Glowing

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno (1584), as translated by Arthur Imerti, 1964.

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• Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical and mathematical analysis gives men an opportunity to bring conflicts up from the level of fights, where the intellect is beclouded by passions, to the level of games, where the intellect has a chance to operate.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Passion, Cutting, Fighting

  "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 114), December 1962.

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• So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Expression, Important

  "Edward Hopper". Book by Lloyd Goodrich, p. 164, 1971.

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• The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Drinking, Coffee, Devil

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Angel, Son, Animal

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 60,

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• Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

  Paul Delaroche

  Education, Kind, Inspired

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• I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyond my understanding and not at all similar to anything of our earthly world that I have experienced so far. I marvel at the intellect and attention to detail, the precision manifested by the workings of this great and often unseen force of which we are all a part.

  Rosemary Altea

  Understanding, Unseen, Details

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• Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

  Arthur Lynch

  Light, Hands, Essence

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Country, Character, Evil

  Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

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• The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Growth, Way

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Wings, Giving, Joy

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