Sentence examples for intellect either from inspiring English sources

Reflecting on Ibn Gabirol's idea of some kind of "form and matter before Intellect" (either in an actual or in some conceptual sense), it is worth considering to what extent this suggests (as the above two discrete charts seem to suggest) a genuine departure from Plotinian Neoplatonism.

And he says that God is provident and takes care of qualitatively better men and inspires them as a result of the mediation of the active intellect either through the way of meditation, or through the way of the effulgence of soul or through the way of revelation.

"Even if there are more and stronger instances against it than there are in its favor, the intellect either overlooks these or treats them as negligible or does some line-drawing that lets it shift them out of the way and reject them".

Fashion exerts a harmful pressure on the intellect, which either cravenly caves in and accepts the soothing notion that "quality living" means a discerning collection of gouaches and a rather nice taste in wines or chooses to resist the tide of fashion and attempt the perpetual effort to separate truths and values from both parasitic public-relations gimmickry and the scent of power.

He teaches that the term "active intellect" refers either to God or to the angels' intellect or to the internal light of human beings, depending upon which intellectual objects are grasped by the human intellect (Summa de anima 116).

In other words, what is being picked out by the infinite intellect in either instance is the same, but the way in which it is picked out is different.

But she is completely without the condescension of either intellect or wealth: her composers are her friends.

I enjoyed almost every minute of the roughly 17 hours I took to complete the PC version of the game, which is also available for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, yet I never felt seriously challenged in terms of either intellect or dexterity.

In his Book of Religion, al-Farabi explains along these same lines that most people are not able to grasp truths through an exercise of intellect, but rather, "either due to nature or because they are occupied with other things" these people (the average folks) will "understand generally accepted or persuasive things" (BR, B 98; BR, M § 48).

"Considered in themselves" (iḏā uʿtubira bi-ḏāti-hi), the things that find place in existence (al-umūr allatī tadḫulu fī l-wuǧūd) are subject to "two divisions in the intellect": they are either "not necessarily existent", and therefore possible, or "necessarily existent" (inherently impossible things do not exist and are excluded from the analysis: Ilāhiyyāt, I, 6, 37, 6 10).

I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life".