Sentence examples for intellectual act from inspiring English sources

Henri Bergson (1859 1941) broke with this tradition when he spoke for "an intellectual act of intuition".

Since a preference for negative freedoms can unite otherwise wary Tories and Liberals, I'd advise fans of the proactive state to get their intellectual act together now.

Intent on surviving in an age where the intellectual act has lost almost all prestige, libraries have become largely social centers.

What we do here is a purely intellectual act". During his four years as director, Dr. Goldberger has helped to raise millions for the institute's endowment and has inaugurated the construction of an $8 million mathematics building.

Nevertheless, it is still connected to "intellectual act".

The act of valuing is not an intellectual act, but an act of the "heart," i.e., an emotional act.

"His intellectual acts," said Freud, "were strong and independent even in isolation and his will needed no reinforcement from others".

Gould's fascination with Bach is utterly trans-historical and marks one of the great intellectual acts of identification, and self-identification, in modern art: the blend of harmonic complexity, contrapuntal density, and often-turbulent propulsiveness comes off, in Gould's playing, as something of a sonic representation beyond words of his inner life, a sort of idealized self-portrait.

These intellectual acts are less clear and distinct than acts of pure intellect, and may indeed be obscure and confused (as in the case of color sensations).

The greater nobility of women's moral character allows them to perform more noble intellectual acts, because of the relation between desire and intellect.

But there are other intellectual acts that require the presence of the body: sense perception, imagination, and corporeal (body-involving) memory.