Sentence examples for exercise for the intellect from inspiring English sources

The production, too, runs cool as opposed to hot; that is, it offers plenty of exercise for the intellect, not much for the heart.

Jazz brought the dimension of wordless, unquestioning physical emotion into a life otherwise almost monopolised by words and the exercises of the intellect.

For example, the intellect is necessarily ignorant of the One.

Painting and sculpture are meant for the eye; conceptual art is meant for the intellect.

Not that the Oxford book (Oxford University Press, 1999, $60), by Alan Davidson, is light work for the intellect.

Spinoza characterizes experiential vaga as experience that is "without order for the intellect" and as "experience that is not determined by the intellect" (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, 19).

Mitigating his pessimism somewhat, Schopenhauer does see a salutary role for the intellect in human life.

Paul Valéry said a poem should be a "banquet for the intellect".

Indeed, it was a veritable banquet or smorgasbord with a profusion of tasty dishes for the intellect.

He felt that one should balance physical training with "cultivating the mind," exercising "the intellect in study".

Exercise for the sake of exercise has always bored me.