Sentence examples for for our intellect from inspiring English sources

I was in the heaven that most receives His light and I saw things which he that descends from it has not the knowledge or the power to tell again; for our intellect, drawing near to its desire, sinks so deep that memory cannot follow it.

For our intellect is immaterial, as are its acts, and it is difficult to see how an immaterial act can be captured in a sensory phantasm.

Moreover, for our intellect the First Principle is the condition of knowing without being known by us, as the sun is the condition of our vision even though we cannot bear the direct sight of it.

For our intellect, the greenness of the cup is something that is merely encountered, rather than consciously constructed, and thus it fails to express any internal connection between the subject and its predicate.

We have taken choice, access to birth control and respect for our intellect for granted in modern society.

Big-name speakers like Dennis Prager, Elliott Abrams and Danny Ayalon who visit Denver's Jewish community never present significantly groundbreaking perspectives, and they feed the angry and radical view of the Middle East with red meat diatribes that offer little nourishment for our intellects.

This has dire consequences for our collective intellect.

This view can be easily disqualified, because it either implies the belief that living systems cannot be understood because they are too complex for our meager intellect and will remain so, or that the principles which generate them are intrinsically unknowable; either implication would have to be accepted a priori without proper demonstration.

For one thing, Scotus believes that our intellect's need for phantasms is a temporary state.

And further on, when a super-fast self-learning and self-assembling AI system starts to develop and engineer itself faster than any human ever could, it evades our intellect for good.

If things were not intelligible by themselves, they could not be grasped and recognised by our intellect for what they are (In Metaph., lib. VI, cap. 4, fol. 233rb va).