The motions of a frog deprived of its brain, show a certain amount of intellection and volition.
Much observation and many experiments have convinced me that the importance of the spinal cord as a center of intellection and volition has been unwarrantably ignored.
That is why there are things which are better, one than the other; for some exist more intensely than others (in relation with the Good).
We should however observe the moral effect produced in the soul of those who listen to the speeches of these men who teach scorn of the world and its contents.
And we should note how that intellection itself is conceived as ever accompanied by a keen sense of its inferiority to the Reality apprehended, and as both the result and the condition and the means of love and of an increase of love.
With the rising level of Faculty engendered by progressive evolution, woman's powers of intellection have developed too.
On this account I can not attribute the act of judgment exclusively to the understanding, for the former involves something more than the simple intellection of a single object.
The phrase intellecta similitudo plurimorum embodies both Induction and Intellection in one.
Intellection is communicated by teaching, through true reasoning, and is unshakeable by persuasion; true opinion is communicated by persuasion and removed by counter-persuasion, without true reasoning.
True opinion may belong to any man; but intellection is the privilege only of gods and of a small section of mankind.
But this explanation left much to be desired--in particular when it is recalled that all higher intellection must in all probability involve multitudes of widely scattered centres.
But such refinements of analysis, after all, cannot hide the fact that certain forms of higher intellectioninvolve a pretty definite collocation and elaboration of special sensations.
But, the instrument of intellection completed, it is quickly brought into use, and now results of the highest order appear.
Every thing demonstrates that the development and completion of this instrument of intellection has been followed by the super-addition of an agent or principle that can use it.
We have only to distinguish this intellection from mere conception derived from the phantasy, which is necessarily associated with it.
He next distinguishes intellection or understanding from imagination or perception; which is worthy of particular notice, because in his controversy with Descartes he had thrown out doubts as to any distinction between them.
The Cartesians understood by this whatever is the object of thought, including an intellection as well as an imagination.
By an intellection they meant that which the mind conceives to exist, and to be the subject of knowledge, though it may be unimaginable and incomprehensible.
I do not here mean the intellection which is neither a definition nor an intuition of a thing; but I say that the thing itself, such as it exists in the intelligible world, is exclusively intelligence and knowledge.
Conscious intellection is activity of the gray surface of the brain, a tissue consisting of countless nerve-cells united by nerve-fibres.
Intellection would be movement or actualization on Aristotelian principles, vi.
Wisdom, or the Intellectual Generative Energy, and Understanding, or the Capacity to be impregnated by the Active Energy and produce intellection or thought, are represented symbolically in the Kabalah as male and female.
Wisdom and the Mother of Intellection go forth at once and dwell together; for when the Intellectual Power emanates, the productive Source of intellection is included in Him.
D Daath is the Act, the Thought, the Intellectionproducing the idea, 766-l.
Will and Capacity which unite to produce the Act of Intellection is always in conjunction, 766-l.
But the first three were to remain and subsist, that among the fragments should be neither Will, Intellectual, Power, nor the Capacity of Intellection of the Divinity.
Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
Then, in the inconsistency or discord of all quasi-intellection that is striving for consistency or harmony, he tells of the vastness of some of these darknesses.
To an intermediatist, the phenomena of intellectionare only phenomena of universal process localized in human minds.
Or, as is a commonplace of observation, all intellection begins with the illusion of homogeneity.
Unsound intellection is false understanding, not resting on a perception of the true nature of things.
The elements of soundintellection are: direct observation, inductive reason, and trustworthy testimony.
So be it--Thomas said, throughintellection and through love.
In a way, intellection arises from sense perception; therefore the sense perception of the particular precedes the intellectual knowledge of universals.
Therefore, the reality of Divinity in its identity is beyond the range of human intellection because the human mind, the human intellect, the human thought are limited, whereas the reality of Divinity is unlimited.
It is an evident fact that the body does not conduct the process of intellection or thought radiation.
They call it ignorance avidya, when the intellect is vitiated by its intellection of the intelligibles or chetyas, but the intelligibles being left out, it comes to know the soul which is free from all attributes.
That intellection which is one and in every one in all the three worlds is verily the god, by the best knowing among philosophers: (that god is the universal mind).
She said, I will try to raise him by infusion of my intellection into his mind; and this will no doubt bring him back to his senses.
