Intellect Quotes - Page 27

• With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Men, Senses

  "Cusanus: A Legacy of Learned Ignorance". Book by Peter J. Casarella, 2006.

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• For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Body, Unions, Members

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• The intellect alone has an eye for viewing an essence, which it cannot see except in the true Cause, which is the Fount of all desire. Moreover, since all things seek to exist, then in all things there is desire from the Fount-of-desire, wherein being and desire coincide in the Same.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Eye, Essence, Desire

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• Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive Him. Therefore, God is revealed therein, that one knows that every intellect is too small to make itself a figuration or concept of Him. However, he names him God, or in Greek, theos.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Names, Greek, Philosopher

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• The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Eye, Color, Found

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• You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Running, Kings, Smell

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• I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?

  Tori Amos

  Believe, Understanding, Body

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• Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

  Che Guevara

  Mean, Chess, Educate

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• A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Hard Work, Passion

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• A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Thinking, Fearless

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More”, p.215, Madison & Adams

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• The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

  Vartan Gregorian

  House, Library, Graduates

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• A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Heart, Symbols

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• Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Socialism, Communism

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

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• The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Blow, Thinking, Humanity

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• Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mean, Emotional, Should Have

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• The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

  William James

  Class, Doe, Firsts

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• I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I really wanted to be, and in that search, like I think you do as an actor, you end up trying to define whatever that is, and I sort of said, "Oh well, searching spiritually in a way is interesting, and Eastern religion seems to be about a search."

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Order, Play

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Men, Yield, Psychology

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• Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

  James McAvoy

  Powerful, Consciousness, Awareness

  "Into the Mind of James McAvoy". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2013.

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• The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Heart, Greatness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

  Charles Colson

  Writing, Imagination, Fiction

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• I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

  Simon Munnery

  Glasses, Badges

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• By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

  Bill Walsh

  Running, Two, Leader

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• When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.

  Adam Gopnik

  Beautiful, Men, Mind

  "Facing History" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012.

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