Quotes About Intellection

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think .

Mental masturbation is actually an important concept. It's when you talk in circles for an hour and reach no decision.

there is nothing we can do longer than think, no activity to which we can devote ourselves more regularly nor more easily:

Christ re-enacts in the outward historical world what is being enacted at all times in the inner world of the soul. In man the Spirit becomes the ego in order that the ego may become pure Spirit; the Spirit becomes ego by incarnating in the mind in the form of intellection, of truth, and the ego becomes the Spirit through uniting with it.

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We humbly beg your kind applause," murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware there was nothing that moved him like a cloud of intellection on a desired face.

To think an object, then, is not the same as to know an object.

The impulse to explain is the Achilles' heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Thought is the thought of thought.

The great events of the world take place in the brain...

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth.

When all else fails, philosophize.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

The natural 'thing,' the organism, the behavior of others and my own behavior exist only by their meaning; but this meaning which springs forth in them is not yet a Kantian object; the intentional life which constitutes them is not yet a representation; and the 'comprehension' which gives access to them is not yet an intellection.