Intellections

Word INTELLECTIONS
Character 13
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Intellections"

What do we mean by intellections?

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word intellections. Define intellections, intellections synonyms, intellections pronunciation, intellections translation, English dictionary definition of intellections.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Intellections

  • Synonyms for intellections
  • Intellections synonyms not found!!!
  • Antonyms for intellections
  • Intellections antonyms not found!

The word "intellections" in example sentences

So many sneers and other, incoherent intellections, in lieu of more coherent and more probative analyses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Otoh, the Archbishop is echoing and channeling the apparent ethos of the Prince of Wales - along with masses of popular opinion - albeit in a manner that reflects investments in casuistries, sophistical phrasings and barely coherent intellections rather than anything more coherent or cogent - largely to disguise the lack of backbone and depth on evidence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We live in an era where the incredibly stupid and short-sighted, as long as it has a body of intellections and moral trumpery behind it, passes for "yet another opinion" to be given its presumptive due. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In just the same way an IQ test measures a candidate's prowess at the particular, kinds of intellections which are measured by such tests. ❋ Medawar, P.B. (1977)

Next, the intellections would be impressions, that is to say not native act but violence from without: now how is such impressing possible and what shape could the impressions bear? ❋ Plotinus (1952)

We must reflect that, since the many forms of lives are movements — and so with the Intellections — they cannot be identical: there must be different lives, distinct intellections, degrees of lightsomeness and clarity: there must be firsts, seconds, thirds, determined by nearness to the Firsts. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

Hence it is an error to call the Ideas intellections in the sense that, upon an intellectual act in this Principle, one such Idea or another is made to exist or exists. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

And even if this be rejected, it must still be admitted that there do exist intellections of intellectual objects and perceptions of objects not possessing magnitude: how, we may then ask, can a thing of magnitude know a thing that has no magnitude, or how can the partless be known by means of what has parts? ❋ Plotinus (1952)

The question still remains to be examined in the matter of the intellections — whether these are to be assigned to the Soul — and as to Pure-Pleasure, whether this belongs to the Soul in its solitary state. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

All is within it, all the powers and intellections; the division is not determined by a boundary but goes ever inward; this content is held as the living universe holds the natural forms of the living creatures in it from the greatest to the least, down even to the minutest powers where there is a halt at the individual form. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

If then it be conceded — and it cannot be denied — that the primal intellections deal with objects completely incorporeal, the principle of intellection itself must know by virtue of being, or becoming, free from body. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

This explains, also, another fact: the soul is unfailingly intent upon intellection; only when it acts upon this image-taking faculty does its intellection become a human perception: intellection is one thing, the perception of an intellection is another: we are continuously intuitive but we are not unbrokenly aware: the reason is that the recipient in us receives from both sides, absorbing not merely intellections but also sense-perceptions. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

Mary was by nature of the class who never reason abstractly, whose intellections all begin in the heart, which sends them colored with its warm life-tint to the brain. ❋ Various (N/A)

Once having tasted this immortal ichor, he cannot have enough of it, and, as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections, it is of the last importance that these things get spoken. ❋ Unknown (1909)

For my own, part I can only point back to him and say whatever is Irish in me he kindled to life, and I am humble when I read his epic tale, feeling how much greater a thing it is for the soul of a writer to have been the habitation of a demi-god than to have had the subtlest intellections. ❋ George William Russell (1901)

For my own part I can only point back to him and say whatever is Irish in me he kindled to life, and I am humble when I read his epic tale, feeling how much greater a thing it is for the soul of a writer to have been the habitation of a demigod than to have had the subtlest intellections. ❋ Standish O'Grady (1887)

They celebrate man and his intellections and relativenesses as they have been. ❋ Unknown (1855)

The immortality of man is as legitimately preached from the intellections as from the moral volitions. ❋ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1842)

Cross Reference for Intellections

  • Intellections cross reference not found!

What does intellections mean?

Best Free Book Reviews
Best IOS App Reviews