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And the divine intellect surpasses the angelic intellect much more than the angelic surpasses the human. For the divine intellect by its capacity equals the divine essence, wherefore God perfectly understands of Himself what He is, and He knows all things that can be understood about Him: whereas the angel knows not what God is by his natural
... See moreSaint Thomas Aquinas • The Summa Contra Gentiles (Illustrated)
Will’s generous reliance on the intentions of the universe with regard to himself. He held that reliance to be a mark of genius; and certainly it is no mark to the contrary; genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humility, but in a power to make or do, not anything in general, but something in particular.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
the intellect—considered by Plato the highest part of the soul—
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
A genius has a double intellect, one for himself and the service of his will; the other for the world, of which he becomes the mirror, in virtue of his purely objective attitude towards it.
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
“Consciousness is the fundamental reality. The physical world is an illusion, a virtual reality that only exists in our minds. We are Individuated Units of Consciousness: immortal, interconnected parts of a Larger Consciousness System. We chose to be players in the virtual reality game called life on Earth, set in a virtual universe computed by the
... See moreThe brain has nonlogical intelligence that isn't arbitrary. That intelligence evolved millions of years before Al's data-dependent circuits, investing our primordial ancestors with the ability to succeed in the unknown. At first, this ability was simply accepted as the way of life. But as our ancestors self-reflected, using their intelligence to
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