Perhaps John Kennedy was the last president who was unapologetic about his intellect and about luring the best minds to his cabinet.
The intellect deliberates about alternatives and selects the one that it perceives to be the best, all things considered.
Numenius maintains that the first or highest God, or first intellect, brings about a second one (frs. 13, 21.7), in fact the divine demiurge, and uses this second intellect as an instrument of its thinking (fr. 22.1 2).
In the third book he maintains that, even though the intellect deliberates about the objects of volition and represents them to the will, it is the will which has the ultimate power to suspend an act of volition, i.e., not to want a particular object.
Romance and feeling gave way to intellect in sophisticated plays about cuckoldry, gossip, intrigue, and sexual license, yet tempered with a strong sense of decorum.
(Rosen, somewhat sullenly, now claims that the way conservatives are using his piece "willfully misreads" it and that "Of course, Judge Sotomayor should be confirmed". Of course, he is willfully misreading his own piece by claiming that it was just about her temperament and not her intellect — but enough about that).
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road.
"Its strength was that it was about belief and faith as much as about intellect".
"It totally foreshadowed how upper-middle-class American marriages ended up being about a shared intellect as much as about children, or sex".
Mr. Bush has spent months trying to erase doubts about his intellect and to raise questions about whether Mr. Gore is enough of a leader to take advantage of the good economy.
