Shayari Bazar

It is true that we instinctively recoil from seeingan object to which our emotions and affections are committedhandled by the intellect as any other object is handled. The firstthing the intellect does with an object is to class it along withsomething else. But any object that is infinitely important to us andawakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis andunique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personaloutrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as acrustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it wouldsay; “I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.”The next thing the intellect does is to lay bare the causes inwhich the thing originates. Spinoza says: “I will analyze the actionsand appetites of men as if it were a question of lines, of planes,and of solids.