Sentence examples for intellect at from inspiring English sources

Human intellect at its highest was akin to them.

Tourre seems to possess the intellect, at least, to be a successful academic.

There's nothing about her manner – no lofty airs or scholarly posing – that suggests the formidable intellect at her disposal.

The significant travels occur, however, via the interactions of the quotidian and his mind, an intellect at once solid in its urbanity and restless in its isolation.

Yes, there is the gee-whiz, caper-pulling Woody that makes him such a trip to be around, but there is also an acute intellect at work.

And so it is the very shakiness of his answers that suggest that they are, in the end, not about his intellect at all.

This passage can be read as reflecting the Second Meditation view that we can clearly and distinctly perceive a body so long as we focus our attention on those aspects of the body that are perceived by the intellect alone (AT 7 30 1).

Hylic human intellects, at this second state of perfection, are in a transformed epistemic and ontological state of human consciousness, in which they begin to think and know in the way that the Active Intellect thinks and knows.

The news of so many losing their homes was pressing enough that Ms. Siegel found a compelling reason to return to the cause that first captured her intellect as an undergraduate at Barnard in the late 1930s.

As he tells Gassendi: "When, for example, we are asleep and are aware that we are dreaming, we need imagination in order to dream, but to be aware that we are dreaming we need only the intellect" (Replies 5, AT 7 359).

Echoing a Neoplatonic hierarchy of being, Farabi ranks the intelligible order of our sub-lunar world, the Agent Intellect being at the top and prime matter at the bottom.