Quotes About Intellect

Human intellect is mere smartness that ensures survival.

If you want to know the experiential dimensions of life, you will never know them with the petty process of thought. Even if you have the brain of an Einstein, your thought process is still outclassed because thought cannot be bigger than life. Thought can only be logical, functioning between two polarities. If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than the intellect.

if you have the brain of an Einstein, your thought process is still outclassed because thought cannot be bigger than life. Thought can only be logical, functioning between two polarities. If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than the intellect.

Once your intellect—or buddhi, as it is termed in the yogic taxonomy—gets identified with something, you function within the realm of this identity. Whatever you are identified with, all your thoughts and emotions spring from that identity.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." ? Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a right to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.

There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and mountains, and other thousand objects. There is but one common substance of the whole world, though it be concluded and restrained into several different bodies, in number infinite. There is but one common soul, though divided into innumerable particular essences and natures. So is there but one common intellectual soul, though it seem to be divided.

As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.

Thou must hasten therefore; not only because thou art every day nearer unto death than other, but also because that intellective faculty in thee, whereby thou art enabled to know the true nature of things, and to order all thy actions by that knowledge, doth daily waste and decay: or, may fail thee before thou die.

If our intellectual part is common, the reason also, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common: if this is so, common also is the reason which commands us what to do, and what not to do;

To read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding of a book; nor hastily to give my assent to those who talk overmuch.

The sacrifice that Christianity asks of us is not ultimately a sacrifice of the intellect.

Ein Zimmer ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Loquor enim de docto homine et erudito, cui vivere est cogitare

Ut conclave sine libris ita corpus sine anima

Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?

I think, therefore I spam.