Human Intellect Quotes

• Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thinking
  • Soulful
  • Millenia

• What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Freedom
  • Accomplished
  • Misfortune

• A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Language
  • Movement
  • Human Intellect

• The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Knowledge
  • Propositions
  • Human Intellect

• Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts... Beyond the range of human intellect.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Love
  • Gifts
  • Human Intellect