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"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."

"There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect."

"Where there is use of the buddhi [intellect], there is no Moksha [Liberation], and where there is Moksha, there the intellect is not needed. Samaj [Understanding] is needed."

"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless."

"Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault."

"That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn't allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do 'everywhere adjustment'."

"Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me."
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"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."

"In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside."

"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."

"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."

"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it."

"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
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