"It is an appeal to dirty thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind," said federal district judge Jose Gonzalez in ruling that the 2 Live Crew's filthy album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was, in fact, obscene.
But Hamas appeals to the emotions, not to the intellect".
It appeals to the visceral, not to the intellect.
Regardless of their vast intelligence, Buckley and Vidal performed on ABC not to gratify intellect but to signify it, like the orotund televised spokesman for classical-music highlights.
In contrast to the standard view of the Middle Ages that propositions of faith are rational, Hobbes argued that such propositions belong not to the intellect but to the will.
For some very good reasons, photographs were seen by some of the Weimar writers — and especially by some of the Frankfurt School critics — as a kind of opiate of the people: as a form that couldn't really explain the political contradictions, a form that appealed only to sentiment and not to the intellect.
"I was driven to make what for me was a sanctuary, not theologically but aesthetically," he told me when I visited him at his home in April, "that would speak not to the intellect but to the soul: soul to soul".
His method of speaking to the gut, not to the intellect, was the initial mode of transmission.
Belichick has no patience for dumb players, and that is not limited to intellect.
Our ability to do so is what al-Kindi calls the "acquired intellect" (not to be confused with "acquired intellect" in al-Farabi, who means by this a comprehensive attainment of the many intellectual forms).
