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The metaphysical scientist and the scientific metaphysician scorn the masses for making God in their own image. It never occurs to them that they but duplicate the process when they set up an arid dry unemotional and frigid concept as Deity. For it is a dull and dreary God precisely like their own colourless character. For the metaphysician and scientist overrate a particular phase of human make-up--intellect--and underrate another phase--emotion--when each should be valued in its own place. To make intellect primary is to upset the proper balance of life. It has a most important place but that place is subordinate to the higher values of life.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 7 : Metaphysics of Truth > # 64