Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...
This is the place to which this tormented, restless man of intellect and of action has come in his quest through the godless pantheon of the Enlightenment. To André Malraux, man's hope, often betrayed, always risen again, is still in man. It is a gallant position, but perilously exposed, and Malraux seems to know it. "The next century's task will be." says Malraux, "to rediscover its gods...
...Roman Catholics worship Him. They cannot. They worship the Sacred Heart, the Virgin, and the Saints . . . To me Roman Catholicism seemed one of two things: either a set of dry philosophical formulae or else a range of plaster-cast statues . . . What I wanted was no vision of the intellect, but resurrection. It was the doctrine of bodily resurrection which held me by an unbreakable bond to the Christian religion, as it had held St. Paul...
...dream man is the common man's opposite number, a lively, unpredictable fellow, unashamed to be crotchety, who keeps himself as free to judge society as society is free to judge him. He is guided by intuition and feelings as well as custom and intellect, is as concerned with the mysteries of religion and the unconscious as with the certainties of science. He might even become telepathic-there's no telling what he might do. Although he is clearly the product of a feminine imagination-in fact, he has everything but a dimple in the chin-this...
...discoverer" of evolution, Darwin, surprisingly enough, lacked Huxley's brilliance and his ability to reason quickly. Yet Darvin's own slowness and tenacity were qualities admirably suited to the task of gradually, almost unconsciously, developing an idea. Huxley's more piercing intellect moved from subject to subject, a versatility which would have made him incapable of discovering anything except by sudden inspiration. Such inspiration, at least in the case of evolution, never came. The notion of evolution, of course, was centuries old. But to Darwin goes the credit of introducing the principle of natural selection--an el- of the unfinished...