Quotes About Intellect

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

92] Cause and effect. It is then true to say that everyone is the victim of illusion, because the ordinary person's opinions are sound without being intellectually so, for he believes truth to be where it is not. There is certainly some truth in these opinions, but not as much as people imagine. It is true that we should honour the gentry but not because gentle birth is a real advantage.

Descartes useless and unnecessary.

Just as we harm the understanding, we harm the feelings also.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. 8

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Let us then take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher

There is nothing so conformable to reason as to disavow reason

Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door--a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn't help but lose your passion for dumbness.

You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, you're very well read, it's well known.

2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think and 95% of the people would rather DIE than think

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

The way the ancient perceived the world was the way the world truly was. This gave them extraordinary influence and power. Reality was not only capable of taking part in a dialogue - intellegible and articulate - it was also persuadable.

The voice came from a cool, rational region far above my head.

shall pick up Bergson, or Kafka, or Joyce, and languish for the minds that are outleaping and outskipping mine.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to claim a little more land.

Some of the verse of Tennyson shows immense technical skill, is better than anything of Shelley or Swinburne.43 I cite Tennyson's consummate skill to show that it is not merely a question of the slipshod, or of a degeneration of the ear. It is something deeper than that. It is a further stage in the disintegration of the intellect, the further separation of sound, image and thought.

and everywhere books, books, books

Better the devil's tongue to argue and question than a silent tongue and an empty head.

Someday I must read this scholar everyone