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intellect

Aspect of the mind concerned with cognitive processes, such as remembering, imagining, conceptualizing, reasoning, understanding, and judging. The term is also used to refer to these rational, or higher, thought processes.



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Here Zarathustra gives names to the intellect and the instincts; he calls the one "the little sagacity" and the latter "the big sagacity.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees; by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
"Very well," said the Witch, "I will give you work in which you will be associated with intellect - you will come in contact with brains.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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