intellect

person

collective noun

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is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity. Arthur Schopenhauer

is a soft voice, which does not rest until it has gained a hearing, which is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind. Freud

The intellect is always fooled by the heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is by no means the only way in which we understand the world.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung

is capable of leading the will only as much as the guide is capable of leading his master.

The intellect may seem at times to lead the will, but only as a guide leads his master... the will 'is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

is clothes just as emotion is the body... to have only emotion and no intellect is to lack civilization while to have only intellect with emotion is like having only clothes without a body.

Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies: we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies

is developed by danger, as in the fox, or by want, as in the criminal, but remains subordinate and instrumental to desire.

in general, the intellect is developed by danger, as in the fox, or by want, as in the criminal. But always it seems subordinate and instrumental to desire... when it attempts to displace the will, confusion follows. No one is more liable to mistakes than he who acts only on reflection.

is merely the minister of foreign affairs which nature has produced for the service of the individual will.

Intellect is merely the minister of foreign affairs... nature has produced it for the service of the individual will. Therefore it is only designed to know things so far as they afford motives for the will, but not to fathom them or to comprehend their true being.

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