Sentence examples for intellect of man from inspiring English sources

The medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides (1135 1204) understood prophecy as an emanation from God to the intellect of man.

Certainly, there can be few more extreme endorsements of W.B. Yeats's chilly dictum, "The intellect of man is forced to choose / Perfection of the life, or of the work".

And it's what Yeats was getting at when he said: "The intellect of man is forced to choose/ Perfection of the life, or of the work/ And if it take the second must refuse/ A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark".

The agent intellect of man, Dietrich tells us, belongs to this mode of being.

The Yeats quatrain that opens the novel's last section: The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work And if it takes the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work And if it takes the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

For surely, Nothing can so disturb the passion, or Perplex the intellects of man so much, As the disruption of this union with Visible nature, separation from all That has delighted or engaged him, a change Not only of the place but of the manner Of his being, an entrance into a state Not simply which he knows not, but perhaps A state he has not faculties to know".

I asked Bramwell what was the best way of knowing the difference between the intellects of men and women; he answered, "By considering the difference between them as to their bodies".

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men".

What the intellect of each man required was already present in his body, whose dark knowledge had unimpeded access to the dials and levers of abstract reason.

The fact that Mr. Doo has been central to the solving of multiple criminal investigations should make it abundantly clear that has the intellect of a man, and not that of a dog.