Quotes About Intellect

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Thinking is mind over matter.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.