It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judge...s of the best book, and few writers of the best books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity.... So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You seem to think that I am adapted to nothing but the sugar-plums of intellect and had better not try to digest anything stronger....... a writer of popular sketches in magazines; a lecturer before Lyceums and College societies; a dabbler in metaphysics, poetry, and art, than which I would rather die, for if it has come to that, alas! verily, as you say, mediocrity has fallen on the name of Adams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, and ... the tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it ou...t. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, an...d it needs--apart from discernment--a certain greatness to find him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hebraism contains no eternal realm of essence, which Greek philosophy was to fabricate, through Plato, as affording the intellectu...al deliverance from the evil of time. Such a realm of eternal essences is possible only for a detached intellect, one who, in Plato's phrase, becomes a "spectator of all time and all existence." This ideal of the philosopher as the highest human type--the theoretical intellect who from the vantage point of eternity can survey all time and existence--is altogether foreign to the Hebraic concept of the man of faith who is passionately committed to his own mortal being. Detachment was for the Hebrew an impermissible state of mind, a vice rather than a virtue; or rather it was something that Biblical man was not yet even able to conceive, since he had not reached the level of rational abstraction of the Greek. His existence was too earth-bound, too laden with oppressive images of mortality, to permit him to experience the philosopher's detachment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although Samuel had a depraved imagination--perhaps even because of this--love, for him, was less a matter of the senses than of t...he intellect. It was, above all, admiration and appetite for beauty; he considered reproduction a flaw of love, and pregnancy a form of insanity. He wrote on one occasion: "Angels are hermaphrodite and sterile."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimu...lation of the intellect should be very much reduced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative... as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not... for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »