Whatever we note as a fundamental principle of this external life which we cognize with our five senses (senses which merge so into the psychical that we know not always where the line demarks) has a permanent place in the Cosmos.
We should not seek to perceive an object otherwise than by the faculty that is suitable to cognize it.
If it were not a part of the world, but yet by its color and other qualities it was conformed to the organ that was to cognize it, would it be felt?
One explanation would be that intelligence does not at all meet them, nor cognize them.
The establishment of the new life-conception, which is proper for humanity under the new conditions into which it is entering, and of the activity resulting from it, is what is called religion.
It is in the recognition or non-recognition of these truths that there is manifested what we cognize as our freedom.
And the Ego can not perceive itself, nor cognize sensation as a state or affection of the Ego except by the intervention of the reason, which supplies the two great fundamental laws of causality and substance.
And, especially, if it be asserted that there is a science of absolute Reality, of ultimate and essential Being, then the most important and vital question is, By what power do we cognize real Being?
By quality, that by which I cognizeany mode of existence.
We can only cognizethe ever-succeeding phenomena of existence as a line in continuous and eternal evolution.
By immediate intuition (the content of which Gioberti comprehends in the formula "Being creates the existences") wecognize the absolute as the creative ground of two series, the series of thought and the series of reality.
It is intended as an answer to the question, How is it possible for the mind to cognize the body if, as Descartes has shown, mind and body are two fundamentally distinct and reciprocally independent substances?
My representations are not the phenomena themselves, but images and signs through which I cognize phenomena, i.
Substances are distinct from one another when we can clearly and distinctly cognize one without the other.
Now, an idea is clear when we cognize its object not as an individual thing, but in its connection, as a link in the causal chain, as necessary, and as a mode of God.
Perception enables us tocognize phenomena only, not the true essence of things and of ourselves, etc.
In brief, "Of phenomena we have knowledge; in the true nature of things we believe; presentiment enables us to cognize the latter in the former.
Since the former coincides with the understanding, we are here concerned only with the reflective judgment, judgment in the narrower sense, which does not cognize objects, but judges them, and this according to the principle of purposiveness.
Absorbed as they were in the contemplation of themselves, they failed to cognize the exact nature of Mr. Vanderhook's occupation in the cellar.
Though you do not cognize the immutable from my own lofty perch of perfect attainment, I will wait, calmly wait, until you by long self-unfoldment shall rise to the state of being of ME.
She also was forced to cognize the enormous advantage of astral attainments over physical conditions and physical powers.
And should she not cognize ME for what I AM, I shall hence to India, and there, by contemplation in the sacred cave I shall astralize.
What we cognize in matter is nothing but relations (what we call its internal determinations are but comparatively internal).
In this view, the theoretical employment of reason is that by which I cognize a priori (as necessary) that something is, while the practical is that by which I cognize a priori what ought to happen.
Footnote: In order to cognize an object, I must be able to prove its possibility, either from its reality as attested by experience, or a priori, by means of reason.
We cannot think any object except by means of the categories; we cannot cognize any thought except by means of intuitions corresponding to these conceptions.
It follows that I cognize myself, not through my being conscious of myself as thinking, but only when I am conscious of the intuition of myself as determined in relation to the function of thought.
The former alone can we cognize a priori, that is, antecedent to all actual perception; and for this reason such cognition is called pure intuition.
As if conception could possibly occur except for a teleological purpose, except to show us the way from a state of things our senses cognize to another state of things our will desires!
And yet it may be that running parallel with those existences, substances and relations unknown to man, there exist intelligences that cognize such existences and relations.
Everywhere that things exist, they may be paralleled by Intelligences that cognize them.
An evil material mind, so-called, can conceive of God only as like itself, and knowing both evil and good; but a purely good and spiritual consciousness has no sense whereby to cognize evil.
Take away matter, and mortal mind could not cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called mind would have no identity.
Being is God, infinite Spirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, or outside of infinity.
The Intelligence and the Soul may indeed cognize forms and fix their desires on them, because they themselves are forms; but evil, which consists in the absence of all goods, could not be described as a form.
We cognize relative vice by noticing that it lacks some part of virtue.
