 We may insist as much as we like that the human intellect is weak in comparison with human instincts, and be right in doing so. But nevertheless there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not...  A Study of Thinking - Page viiby Jerome Seymour Bruner, George Allen Austin - 1986 - 330 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Paul Ricoeur - 1970 - 594 pages
...prophecy; but I think this must be looked upon merely as a bit of irony inserted in an ad hominem argument: The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. Finally after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds. . . . Our... | |
 | Philip Pomper - 1985 - 220 pages
...self-control — faith in Logos, as Freud put it. He encapsulated his faith in a well-known passage: "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."1 ' Faith in the intellect in turn implies faith in the ego's ability to acquire sufficient... | |
 | William W. Meissner - 1986 - 280 pages
...man's intellect is powerless in comparison with his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this...the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds. This is... | |
 | Brian Morris - 1987 - 386 pages
...man's intellect is powerless in comparison with his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this...but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points on which... | |
 | Douglas J. Den Uyl, Douglas B. Rasmussen - 1987 - 252 pages
...circles, as putting one not just into a minority but quite outside the pale. But is it not written: "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it...Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind"?5 NOTES i.... | |
 | Angus McIntyre - 1988 - 336 pages
...figure of speech—'Reason, seated firmly on her throne, whispered' — is very similar to Freud's: 'the voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing', Churchill's altogether typical metaphor is far more majestic than Freud's—or more grandiose, if you... | |
 | Arthur B. Coffin - 1991 - 354 pages
...make sense out of apparent nonsense and to bolster the ego in its control and direction of life.40 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a bearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs. it succeeds. This is one of the few points in... | |
 | Ernest Wallwork - 1991 - 364 pages
...life. And yet, reason is not in Freud's view "powerless in comparison with . . . instinctual life . . . The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing" (SE 21 [1927]:53). PART II Psychological Egoism Chapter 5 Overview of... | |
 | Kenneth Elliott Bock - 1994 - 156 pages
...instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about the weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has found a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds. This is... | |
 | Caroline New - 1996 - 206 pages
...satisfaction in favour of aim-inhibited, social concem. The process is fragile and unsteady, but sure. 'The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing . . . This is one of the few points on which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind' (Freud,... | |
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