“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” BelieveSpiritualSpiritualityBeliefI BelieveWomenMovementGeniusFunctionIntuitionTendenciesIntuitiveNineteenth CenturyElectrical Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“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.” FirstsReasonLastsBeliefForceCreativeInstinctInsightIntuitionAnalysisRealmsOppositionAgreementLogicalConfirmationIllusoryInstinct Intuition Book:Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays Source: Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays
“Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.” FirstsPersonsHandsBeliefPracticeGreaterDegreesDirectRegardHistoricalDefinitionsIntuitionAcceptedPsychologicalMysticismMysticPersonal Knowledge Author:Evelyn Underhill
“Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?” PeopleWorldKindMayMadeFeelingsAbleBeliefAbilityStupidIntellectualResourcesConnectionsInsightIntuitionCleverLeapDeniedStupid People Author:Stephen Fry