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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Intuition

"There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic."

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
Intuition

"Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Intuition

"The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Intuition

"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Intuition

"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
Intuition

"The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition."

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Pharrell Williams Musician, Producer
Intuition

"Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within."

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