We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
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