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"Intellect is not speaking and logicising, it is seeing and ascertaining."
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"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."

"Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain."

"One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not have even five 'revolutions' per minute and an intellectual has one to two thousand 'revolutions' per minute. The higher the 'revolutions, the quicker he will understand this 'Science' [Akram Vignan]."

"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."

"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."

"Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is understood through the intellect (buddhi). Knowledge of that which is beyond the world (alaukik gnan) cannot be understood through the intellect. That is understood through 'Gnan' [Knowledge of the Real Self]."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."


"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."


"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."


"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."


"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke, there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."
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