Intellect and Reason

If it is essential to distinguish between the realm of religion or traditional wisdom and that of experimental science, it is also essential to distinguish between the intellect, which is intuitive, and reason, which is discursive; reason is a limited faculty, whereas the intellect opens out upon the Universal and the Divine.  For metaphysical wisdom, reason only possesses a dialectical, not an enlightening, usefulness; reason is not capable of grasping in a concrete way that which lies beyond the world of forms, though reason is able to reach further than imagination.  All ratiocination condemns itself to ignorance the moment it claims to deal with the roots of our existence and of our spirit.

- from "No Activity Without Truth" by Frithjof Schuon