The more important
something is in your life, the more harmful it can be for you in the future if you
abuse it. The misfortunes and woes of people often come from the abuse of the
most precious tool of our life: intellect.
God gave his spirit,
his intellect, to us, so that we can understand his will and fulfill it. But we
misuse it and abuse this spirit for the fulfillment of our own will.
When the intellect becomes the slave of vices and passions,
the supporter of lies, it becomes not only a perversion, but an illness, and we
cannot see the difference between truth and falsehood, good and evil, virtue
and vice.
— William Ellery Channing
When a person tries
to apply his intellect to the question "Why do I exist in this
world?" he becomes dizzy. The human intellect cannot find the answers to
these questions. What does this mean? This means that our intellect is not
given to us to find a solution for this question. Our intellect can only answer
the question: “How shall I live?” And the answer is simple; “We should live so
us to bring good to all people.”
The purpose of the
intellect is to reveal the truth; therefore it is a harmful misconception to
pervert the truth with intellectual efforts.
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