intellect Quotes

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional... ...

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

No truly great person is completely free of some madness.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul... ...

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never... ...