Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“In this worldly life, man is a prisoner of everything. He is a prisoner of the mind, a prisoner of the intellect,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You carry that through and adapt it to a camera lens, but you're quite right, you cannot be sure of what an… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intellect and love are made of different materials,” he said. “Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The reason that we have both good and wicked thoughts together is not, as some suppose, because the Holy Spirit and the… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later,… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The world is a mountain. Whatever you say, it will echo it back to you. Don't say, "I sang nicely and the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“While the intellect allows us to function with clear knowledge of the physical world the intuition allows us insight into the deeper… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The whole world is absorbed in the intellect. Only when one moves away from the intellect and comes into the Light of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Understanding always makes one contented [absorbed]. At the last degree of contentment, there is Moksha [Liberation]. Intellect causes one to overflow and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to… — William Styron Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
“Intellect can be helpful, but it needs consciousness to be its master; otherwise it can behave in a very stupid way. It… — Osho Copy Share Image
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
The wise wo/man knows there is something to be learned from everyone. S/He knows that know matter how bad or good said… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect,… — Doug Ferguson Copy Share Image
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now… — Gordon Campbell Copy Share Image