Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that — one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious whether all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.[Nur wir, in unsrer Hoffahrt, drängen aus einigen Zusammenhängen in einer Freiheit leeren Raum, statt, klugen Kräften hingegeben, uns aufzuheben wie ein Baum.]
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.
He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.[Человек он умный, но чтоб умно поступать – одного ума мало.]