Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal
“Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.”
“The heart is wiser than the intellect.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 616.
“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet
Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 3: Government By Consent And Consent, p 48
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IX: The Leech
“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
"A Defence of Heraldry"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.
Vol. 2, Ch. 27, § 369
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 3
Context: The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but transalate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions.
“Baptized persons have the duty to believe not only with their heart but also with their intellect.”
God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith (2015)
“Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.”
