Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man." in the context of "Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955), Ch. 3: The Human Situation, Sect. E "The Need for a Frame of Orientation and Devotion — Reason vs. Irrationality”." to mean that wisdom is timeless.