Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extension: which is why in this respect one man can confidently take on ten thousand, and a thousand fools do not make one wise man.
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
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