Sentence examples for realm of intellect from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, Neoplatonists of religious traditions did think that the rational soul's union with the realm of intellect was possible.

In the realm of intellects, Dietrich tells us, we discover a fourfold order in which intellectual reality stands: at the top of this order is found what Dietrich calls intellects existing through their essence, followed by intelligent spiritual substances that are called angels, and then species and finally the individual realities included in species that are known to mind.

Their mouthpiece was the Reader in which Huxley, answering Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli's criticism of Darwinism, notoriously claimed that science would achieve "domination over the whole realm of the intellect"—and Nature (founded in 1869 by Huxley's team).

We may posit this distinction as one where prose operates within the realm of the intellect, with its abstract concepts and categories and where poetry rules supreme in the land of the qalb (heart) and rūḥ (spirit); where a constant taqallub (fluctuation) and murāwaḥa (vascillation) is the definitive state of reality.

"The past is hidden outside the realm," writes Proust in Swann's Way, "beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling.

However, anybody familiar with Ibn al-ʿArabi's thought and the larger discourse on cosmo-ontology and saintology in Islamic mysticism knows that there is yet another 'beyond' to these two realms of the intellect and spirit.

And that's in its direct appeal to the shadows beneath the intellect, a realm of atavistic fears, sorrows and desires.

The Neo-Platonists (such as Plotinus, 205-270) taught a world-system of emanation, whereby the One (like Plato's Form of the Good) flowed into Intellect (the realm of the Forms) and from there into the World-Soul and individual souls, where it encountered the realm of bodies, from where it returned to itself ('the flight of the alone to the alone').