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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
View quotes by D H Lawrence
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
View quotes by Benedict Spinoza
The hand that follows intellect can achieve
View quotes by Michelangelo
You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.
View quotes by Mike Brearley
The heart is wiser than the intellect
View quotes by Josiah Gilbert Holland
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art
View quotes by Susan Sontag
Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect.
View quotes by John Stuart Mill
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
View quotes by Carl Gustav Jung
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
View quotes by Karl Von Clausewitz
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
View quotes by Charles Lamb
Golf has drawbacks. It is possible, by too much of it, to destroy the mind... Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect.
View quotes by Walter Simpson
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
View quotes by Galileo Galilei
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
View quotes by W B Yeats
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
View quotes by Alec Guinness
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
View quotes by Isaac Singer
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
View quotes by William James
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.
View quotes by Sri Sathya Sai Baba Quotes
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