With his formidable intellect went a legendary absent-mindedness.
Your amazing wit and intellect goes unsurpassed and you can leave this earth knowing it is a far better place for having felt your human presence.
It begins with a young stay-at-home who goes out on an interview, gets to thinking distractedly about superlatives of strength and intellect, goes home again, searches Google for the cleverest human, and discovers "if not the smartest person in the world, at least some kind of freakish genius" who can memorise 1,528 random digits in one hour and any poem handed to him.
Intuition and intellect represent two opposite directions of the work of consciousness: intuition goes in the very direction of life, intellect goes in the inverse direction, and thus finds itself naturally in accordance with the movement of matter.
At the intellectual level, the so called "agent intellect" goes to work on this species and somehow produces the universal concept that is the raw material of intellectual cognition.[41] Ockham rejected this entire theory of species.
Since the identity of the subject of first philosophy with the first object of the intellect was foundational for the medieval conception of metaphysics, a basic instability underlies the medieval conception of metaphysics and hence the doctrines of the transcendentals: being as the first object of the intellect goes beyond the extension of real being as the subject of metaphysics.
The first thing that comes to my mind is: How, as a species, did we attain the intellect that went into making the tool that could take that picture?
"The human-animal bond bypasses the intellect and goes straight to the heart and emotions and nurtures us in ways that nothing else can," said Karin Winegar, whose book "Saved: Rescued Animals and the Lives They Transform" (Da Capo, 2008) chronicles human-animal interactions.
"She has a presence and an intellect that goes way beyond her years".
The division between valuing athletics and intellect is ancient, going back to the roots of Western civilization.
