In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out. — Michka Assayas Copy Share Image
Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
We were forever and always. My love for you being forever, while the child in you is always. — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image