All Quotes

"There are only two limiting factors: first, that what seems impenetrable to us is as important as what is cut and dried, and, second that our faculties are dull and can only comprehend wisdom and serene beauty in crude forms, but the heart of man through intuition leads us to greater understanding of ourselves and the universe."

"Farewell scheming intellect - my soul be my only property, the intuition be my profit to set my neighbor free."

"..spaceless Being who alone renders time and space and cosmos possible, and in all these the higher truth realisable by the lower term, justify themselves to the deliberate reason as well as to the persistent instinct or intuition of mankind."

"The conscious existence involved in the form comes, as it evolves, to know itself by intuition, by self-vision, by self-experience. It becomes itself in the world by knowing itself; it knows itself by becoming itself."

"Man, because he has acquired reason and still more because he has indulged his power of imagination and intuition, is able to conceive an existence higher than his own and even to envisage his personal elevation beyond his present state into that existence."

"We have seen what pure Reason, intuition and experience have to say about pure Existence, about Sat; what have they to say about Force, about Movement, about Shakti?"

"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer."

"Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth- action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; for though we have applied that word for want of a better to any supra-intellectual direct of knowing, yet what we actually know as intuition is only one special moment of self-existent knowledge."

"Over mind in the descent towards material creation has originated modifications of itself, — Intuition especially with its penetrative lightning flashes of truth lighting up local points and stretches of country in our consciousness..."

"It is not indeed possible, so long as we are compelled to use reason as our main support, for it to abdicate altogether in favour of an undeveloped or half organised intuition; but it is imperative on us in a consideration of the Infinite and its being and action to enforce on our reason an utmost plasticity and open it to an awareness of the larger states and possibilities of that which we are striving to consider..."

"Each by itself is not really known; we only begin to know it in its deeper truth when we can read into it the suggestions of its apparent opposite. It is through such a profounder catholic intuition and not by exclusive logical oppositions that our intelligence ought to approach the Absolute."

"But although our primary evidence of the objects of the universe consists of a structure of sense-images, these are completed, validated, set in order by an automatic intuition in the consciousness which immediately relates the image with the thing imaged and gets the tangible experience of the object, so that we are not merely regarding or reading a translation or sense-transcript of the reality but looking through the sense image to the reality."

"All finites are in their spiritual essence the Infinite and, if we look deep enough into them, manifest to intuition the Identical and Infinite."

"... the secret of its operations [subliminal sense] is unknown and its principles of sign- construction and symbolic figure-languages foreign; a greater inner power of intuition, tact, discrimination is needed to judge and interpret rightly its images and experiences."

"To these means is added a reason, intelligence and intuition which seize on the communications thus indirectly brought to them, put all in order and utilise their data to get as much knowledge and mastery and possession of the not-self or as much partial unity with it as the original division allows to the separated being."

"... spiritual and psychic. The traditional account of this inner witness is conscience, a power of perception in us half mental, half intuitive; but this is something superficial, constructed, unreliable: there is certainly within us, though less easily."

"In all this enlightened obscurity of our mental parts a secret intuition is at work, a truth-urge that corrects or pushes the intelligence to correct what is erroneous, to labour towards a true picture of things and a true interpretative knowledge. But intuition is itself limited in the human mind by mental misprision of its intimations and is unable to act in its own right for whether it be physical, vital or mental intuition …"

"The mind in seeking for such a Reality and testing each thing from Matter upwards to see if that might not be It, has not proceeded on a wrong intuition. All that is necessary is to carry the inquiry to its end and test the highest and ultimate levels experience."

"Even if, as modern Science insists, religion started from animism, spirit-worship, demon-worship, and the deification of natural forces, these first forms only embody in primitive figures a veiled intuition in the subconscient, an obscure and ignorant feeling of hidden influences and incalculable forces"

"The intuitions that he thus received by contact with Nature, his mind systematized and so created the early forms of religion. This active and ready power of intuition also gave him the sense of supra-physical forces behind the physical, and his instinct and a certain subliminal or super normal experience of supra-physical beings with whom he could communicate..."

"In India, we have seen a persistence of the original intuition and total movement of evolutionary nature."

"An intuition in the heart sees the truth"

"Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Not that I’m trying to load my argument, of course."

"Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge of identity; for it is always something which leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting…"

"May the invincible rays of his intuition be there seeking immortality, pervading both the births; for by them he sets flowing in one movement human strengths and things divine."

"Intuition is defined as a non-rational, holistic, cognitive process that is enhanced by experience and associated with affect."

"Jung (1977), legitimised intuition to some extent through defining the four basic psychological functions as intuition, thinking, feeling and sensation, and these concepts have been incorporated into standardised personality evaluation tests used daily all over the world."

"Interest in the use of intuition as a viable approach to decision-making and judgements in environments of rapid change and complexity has increased in recent years."

"Intuition as a judgement/decision-making skill is important for contemporary leaders because it is more able to cognitively process complex systems than our rational minds."

"Much of the confusion surrounding intuition, adding to the complexity of conducting research on intuition, is due to the use of this term in so many ways."

"Intuition has long been associated with the mystic, irrational and paranormal."

"Concomitantly, the shift away from intuitions of simple natures is accompanied by a shift away from abstraction, as the epistemic model for gaining knowledge, to a model that requires many of our core ideas to be innate in the mind. Thus, in place of the earlier methods of abstracting by direct intuition and compunding from sensuous and non-sensuous experience, increasingly Descartes brings to the fore the view that knowledge always involves innate ideas."

"In the Rules Descartes ties abstraction to intuition. The two main characteristics of intellectual intuition are first, the purely intellectual nature of the operation itself and, second, the absolute certainty and assurance that accompanies it. Thus, an intuition is an insight into necessary connections between the two simple ideas or two elements of an idea."

"By “intuition,” I do not mean the fluctuating testimony of the senses or the deceptive judgment of imagination as it botches things together, but the conception of a clear and attentive mind, which is so easy and distinct that there can be no doubt about what we are understanding. Alternatively, it comes to the same thing intuition is the indubitable conception of a clear and attentive mind which proceeds solely from the light of reason."

"Our analysis of the performative nature of the cogito should make clear that for Descartes its validity is an immediate intuition of a truth contained in an idea grasped in an instant, an intuition that contains no temporal successiveness."

"But he [Descartes] also makes clear that he is appealing to a mental intuition with roots in the Rules. This is the notion that we possess mental acts whose content is such that we are not “aware of a movement or a sort of sequence,” as is the case in deductive chains of reasoning."

"Thus, Descartes makes a clear distinction, in the Second Reply, between the truth of a mental content to which we immediately attend and that truth recalled by memory when the initial intuition is no longer attended to. He illustrates his point in reference to the cognito: When someone says “I am thinking, therefore I am , or exist,” he does not deduce existence from thought by means of syllogism, but recognizes it as something self-evident by a simple intuition of the mind."

"Descartes defines intuition as the conceptual act of the pure and attentive mind.that springs from the light of reason alone."

"Descartes, by means of intuition and abstraction, seeks to establish the ultimate features of things as they are in themselves; that is, he seeks to establish an objective ontology of natures that compose material bodies."

"Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter."

"I see the birth of a new-boy system instead of the old-boy system. The new-boy system consists of athletic men who are self-confident and intelligent enough to be supportive of women, particularly those with their own self-confidence, sexual athleticism and intelligence. Men find these qualities in me a "turn on"."

"No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel."

"Women need a reason to have sex while all men need is a place."

"As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods."

"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit."

"Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none."

"Sexually transmitted diseases, ranging from the serious to the fatal, are a fact of life in high schools and neighborhoods across the country. Misinformation and scare tactics about common sexual practices like masturbation are rampant. Despite these facts, and despite parents' overwhelming desire for their children to receive detailed sex education at school as well as at home, our society remains unwilling to make sexuality part of a comprehensive health education program in the schools and anxious to the point of hysteria about young people and sex...Hysteria about sex has hindered attempts to address these pressing concerns, and the people hurt most are those who most need the information—our young people, the poor, and the uninformed. Ignorance is not bliss."

"The twenty-first century has seen wider acknowledgment of the fact that human sexuality is much more complex than the rigid and unchanging categories of heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual can express; the experiences of trans people are just one part of this increased sexual diversity. In the case of non-binary people – whose gender identities and expressions may sit outside of the categories of man and woman, or move between the two – the nineteenth-century categories of human sexuality make little sense – which is why the term ‘queer’ has risen in popularity."

"Sexual frustration is the single most powerful force in the world. We are the only species where that frustration affects things like the amount of money given to the poor and the length of welfare lines. I hate that the fact that George Bush's wife is an ugly old piece of shit who could cause suffering among millions and could cause wars. I don't think it's any coincidence that Kennedy was the last president who had a wife worth fucking and he was the last good president."

"It’s the strange thing about this church, it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we with our permissive society and our rude jokes, we are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude, we like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly, because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult, it’s a bit like food in that respect only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic Church in a nutshell."