The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.[Denn alle Geister sind dem unsichtbar, der keinen hat.]
Will and intellect stand in the same relation to the nature of God as do motion, and rest, and absolutely all natural phenomena, which must be conditioned by God to exist and act in a particular manner.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only a half-truth, and must, if it is honest, also admit its inadequacy.
The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.
Often the hands know how to solve a riddle with which the intellect has wrestled in vain.
