At the same time, however, the life of the intellect was conceived as being driven by a passionate aspiration for what was eternal and universal.
Very well, then, but let them be conservatives whose brain waves are not completely flat and who have spent their professional lives doing something worthier than flattering local realtors, hating the life of the intellect on principle, and regurgitating Heritage Foundation talking points.
A month or so before my visit to the jail – just over a year into Nadya's sentence – she had written to me that she felt herself turning into a "Russian man" (by which she meant a non-thinking individual of any gender), that she found herself looking forward only to tea and sweets and she envied me my existence "in the life of the intellect".
And since the scholar official in China was expected to be skilled in the "Six Arts"—ceremonial ritual, music, calligraphy, mathematics, archery, and charioteering culture and the arts tend to be more closely connected with intellect and the life of the mind than in the western traditions.
His love of life, keen intellect, sense of humor and ever-present smile will be missed by all who knew him.
Soul is not the principle of life, for the activity of Intellect is the highest activity of life.
We celebrate the life and intellect of Hank Pearson, a great artist and good friend.
It is to create a peaceful and just society, with Islamic scholars over centuries citing its core aims: the freedom to practise religion; protection of life; safeguarding intellect; maintaining lineage and individual rights.
The famous jurist al-Ghazali (considered by many to be the single most influential Muslim after the prophet Muhammad) has stated the freedom of religion as the first of five essential rights that Sharia has granted to all individuals – the others having to do with the protection of life, lineage, intellect and property.
While the latter description leads Aristotle to portray as possible a kind of human life that partakes of divine detachment (1178b5 ff), finally human life is an indissolvable composite of intellect, reason, sensation, desires, and appetites.
