Intellect QuotesLife is a slow suicide, and it is happening to every intellectual. Love with delight discourses in my mind
Upon my lady's admirable gifts...
Beyond the range of human intellect. If one does not have these five things there is no good in him: intellect, religion, etiquette, shame and good manners. Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect. So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still. We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle. Both the abodes (this world and the Hereafter) are grasped by the intellect, and whoever is deprived of the intellect is deprived of them both. Dartmouth is the place Ive devoted my life to, so its very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution. And amongst us one,
Who most has sufferd, takes dejectedly
His seat upon the intellectual throne. I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned. Harmony is the characteristic of the intellectual system of the universe; and immutable laws of moral existence must pervade all time and all space, all ages and all worlds. That teaching according to which intellectual activity is worthy of esteem to the extent that it is practical and to that extent alone. I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer. If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. |


