Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
I think we have a free will, and at the same moment we don't. We have to live with that. It doesn't make sense intellectually, but that's because our intellect is always trying to come up with a logical, rational explanation for things. To do that, it puts labels on things. But once you label something, you've got twoness. You've got the label, and you've got what you're labeling. And there is only oneness in the universe, even though we artificially believe in twoness.
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.
The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings. ''
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.
Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.