Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.