By the strength of his intellect, he forced himself to observe humanity with clinical objectivity, and because he was neither immortal nor infallible he hated and feared the falseness of his life.
Only by joining intellect and force can the world protect democracy as the most reasonable form of social organization.
"He was not so much thinking up some original way of looking at a subject but solving extremely hard technical problems that at the time only he could solve, by sheer intellect and force of will," Phillip Griffiths, a geometer and a former director of the Institute for Advanced Study, said.
He had said he wanted "a Cabinet made up of the ablest men in America, leaders in their own right and not merely by virtue of appointment — men who will command the public's respect and the President's attention by the power of their intellect and the force of their ideas".
Galileo admired those who believed in the sun-centred system before the advent of the telescope: "They have by sheer force of intellect done such violence to their own senses as to prefer what reason told them over that which sense experience plainly showed them to be the case".
(Carson even had the temerity, in front of a Republican audience, to suggest that there are moments when it makes more sense to rely on intellect than military force).
In "Don Carlos," the most imposing of them is the Grand Inquisitor, an evil deus ex machina, 90 years old, blind and yet still capable of crushing the proud Philip by superior intellect and brute force of will.
Despite his intellect, Maria Theresa's force of personality often made Joseph cower.
After all, charisma is to some extent irreducible; in the classroom a scholar can inspire by sheer force of intellect and personality, an effect to which bureaucratic reports seldom do justice.
Both paint a picture of human intellect or reason fighting forces within us that lead us astray.
