Sentence examples for for the intellect from inspiring English sources

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

He helped you elevate debate topics to the level of philosophy, with powerful results for the intellect and the scorecard.

But when those who fought and suffered are almost all dead, "remembering" is a task for the intellect and imagination.

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

Maybe it's just a product of getting older, but I'd rather cook to satisfy a craving than cook for the intellect".

It is emblematic of a larger contempt for the intellect of the electorate, and you demean both yourself and us each time you do it.

A reverence for the power of the intellect is for me a definition of Jewishness; which is one reason why I give Shylock a speech in which he says that the glory of Venice was founded not on trade, but on the writings of the classical scholars whose work had been preserved in its monasteries".

Lefèvre did argue for the unity of the intellect, explaining the active and passive intellects as "powers" (potentie) of the same faculty.

For Plutarch, the proximity of soul as such to body in its operations as living body is evidence for the superiority of the intellect.

For example, concepts of the intellect (such as the specific concept of man or the generic concept of animal) represented by second order concepts (such as the concept of species or genus) are presented only to the intellect.

On the one hand, the conceptualists: thinkers like Peter of Auriol and William of Ockham denied that what is first by commonness, "being", would be the adequate "moving object" of the intellect, for something common cannot move the intellect nor cause an intellectual cognition.