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“Intuition and conceptions constitute, therefore, the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither conceptions without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without conceptions, can afford us a cognition.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility...” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Thus all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.” Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
“the fact that the intellect is not the most subtle, powerful and appropriate instrument for grasping the truth is only one more reason in favour of starting with the intellect rather than with the intuitions of the unconscious or with...” Marcel Proust, The Fugitive
“dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
“Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

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