Sentence examples for the intellect that from inspiring English sources

"It is the sensuous contributor to the intellect that makes the difference," Eliot also said of James, and the phrase is applicable to Sebald.

The first thing that comes to my mind is: How, as a species, did we attain the intellect that went into making the tool that could take that picture?

For in the final analysis, it is the will rather than the judgment of the intellect that determines the action the agent performs.

This reprises a theme sounded in Aristotle's metaphysics, in which the intellects of the heavenly spheres, desiring to be like the Intellect that is the Prime Mover, imitate it as best they can.

Thus, Locke subscribes to a version of the empiricist axiom that there is nothing in the intellect that was not previously in the senses — where the senses are broadened to include reflection.

In each area, it is the intellect that is responsible for comprehending the first principles or premises of the subject, and for enabling a person to perfect his (or her) knowledge of it.

Ibn Daud's account of prophecy immediately follows his discussion of the intelligences, since it is the Active Intellect that plays a crucial role in the explanation of prophecy.

If one holds that it is the infinite intellect that is doing the relevant perceiving, there seems to be no reason to limit the number of attributes it perceives.

Specifically, it is the theoretical intellect that has this status, the practical intellect being subsidiary to it.

Le Carré's world offers us a fantasy of an iconic brand of authority: the cool intellect that allows a strong person to experience the ultimate pleasure, which is total control.

Though Crosland was celebrated for the towering intellect that got him a first in PPE at Oxford in 12 months, and though the sexual attraction was obvious to all who knew them, he also regarded Susan as his intellectual peer.