Sentence examples for work of the intellect from inspiring English sources

When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.

The intellectual virtues perfect the intellect and confer an aptness for the good work of the intellect which is the apprehension of truth.

I'm one of those people who think of them not just as fantasy novels but as exceptional works of the intellect".

Help her, and then place her by your side at the great assembly of nations — that final work of the human intellect".

As does another work of analytic intellect, by the 5BCE master of the Sanskrit language, Panini.

"This anthology succeeds in condensing the work of an intellect defined otherwise by its great expanse".

As Lindberg puts it (DMP, Introduction) Bacon does not deal in this work with the divine illumination of the intellect, universal hylomorphism, the plurality of forms (properly qualified), and the separability of soul.

In his best-known work, Ḥikmat al-ishrāq ("The Wisdom of Illumination"), he said that essences are creations of the intellect, having no objective reality or existence.

In the Valéncia edition of this work, published several centuries later in 1512, Alonso de Proaza would also illustrate this idea of the ascent and descent of the intellect (Fig. 3).

Followers should use their wisdom, intellect and will to identify evil, the work of the destructive spirit Mainyu.

It is about getting older and testing every work of intellect or faith and only doing what you can do "proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb".