"If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition."
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"Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out."
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"What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct."
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"Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities."
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"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
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"Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred."
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"When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it."
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"To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive."
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"Reason is intuition's servant."
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"Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless."
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"My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions."
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"Systems die; instincts remain."
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"Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand."
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"Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it."
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"I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting # intuition guide my way."
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"An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product."
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"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
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"The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new."
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"Less rules, more intuition."
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"Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition."
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