Without preceding aesthetic intuitionsof the imagination, nature cannot arouse any at all.
It would, of course, be absurd to say that music does not express definite intuitions that are expressible through other media as well.
It may at first sight seem surprising that art should not gain by the introduction of variousintuitions of relation; that it does not, as a rule, is certain.
This means that the intellectual activity which relates and generalises the intuitions or presentations does not depend upon them, but is as much a condition of experience as are the presentations themselves.
The results, so splendid and yet so inadequate, so rich in great intuitions and suggestions, so patient and successful in much of its detail, is preserved to us in the work of Plato and Aristotle.
It had the certainty, if certainty at all, which belongs to profound intuitions and to a wide interpretation of experience, not that which makes a definite, settled, and above all communicable conviction.
And thus, as ever where our deepest intuitions are concerned, the nature-mystic finds himself in harmony with and abreast of the latest developments of modern knowledge.
And first would come the vastness of the sea, which prompts vague intuitions of mystery and infinity.
And what holds good of the imperfect and recently developed rational faculties holds good even more substantially of the fundamental instincts and emotions, and of intuitions and spiritual promptings.
How great the number and variety of the emotions and intuitions that beauty can stir and foster will be seen in detail hereafter.
For such are but some out of the many forms in which man has struggled to give expression to his intuitions that there is something wrong in nature--to his deep sense of division and conflict in the cosmic process.
The rushing rapid and the plunging waterfall have an influence all their own in rousing intuitions of more than human life and power.
But, as Plato, for one, so clearly saw, there is always at their core a group of intuitions which have their bearing on the deepest problems of human life, and are capable of moulding spiritual concepts.
They are primitive intuitionsembodied to form a primitive philosophy of life.
When, therefore, life and movement are attributed to seemingly inert or motionless objects, there is a responsive thrill caused by the subconscious play of primitive intuitions that are based on the facts of existence.
It will simply be taken to cover the causes and the effects involved in that wide range of intuitions and emotions which nature stimulates without definite appeal to conscious reasoning processes.
But the idealist, of whatever school, is seldom content to base his appeal to us upon these scatteredintuitions alone.
But, thus qualified, the intuitions of infancy might seem scarcely worth insisting on.
Knowledge is the soil, and intuitions are the flowers which grow up out of it.
But Helena, whose love was great and whose intuitions were diabolical, leaped to the secret.
God, in his wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect, when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.
Experience detached from active power is no longer faculty of doing, but mere memory of what has been done; and principles accordingly subside into precedents, intuitions into arguments, and alertness of will into calculation of risks.
The Sybarite, a creature of intuitions when in the full enjoyment of "his personal ethos," was ready to help him to do so.
All Barney actually knew of a child came through the intuitions of a natural father's heart, but little as this amounted to, Barney was aware that a tiny scamp like this should eat and sleep and creep about and crow.
Unless, indeed, that introspection and that impulse are always part of the intuitions of love--yielded to or not, as may be.
As his judgment determined, her intuitions had approved.
I leave it with you, having more faith in your intuitions than in my own judgment.
They seem to have no life--none of those clear intuitions that spring from an ardent desire to reach a clearly-seen goal.
Her intuitions were active and she had a daring imagination.
She was no longer the imperturbable and ready young woman whose unwearying sunniness and amazing intuitions had so often helped him through perplexities.
Intuitions are shy things and apt to disappear if looked into too closely.
Have not women, the illiterates of love, all the intuitions of ignorance?
To offset this, she doubles her qualities, through her intuitions and inner perceptions, especially during pregnancy or gestation.
Learn to trust your own intuitions and judgments, and do not allow the opinions of others to sway you.
Learn to trust your intuitions more and place reliance in the guidance of your affectional nature.
No American author has done more to exalt the individual, to inspire him to act according to his own intuitions and to mold the world by his own will.
So they did, but if myintuitions are not greatly at fault, the place they started from was France.
He has shouldered the responsibility of finding this man, and has often observed, in his long life, that a woman's intuitions go as far as a man's reasoning.
For that apprehension of forms in the Imagination can never take place without the reflective Judgement, though undesignedly, at least comparing them with its faculty of referring intuitions to concepts.
If the concepts are empirical, the intuitions are called examples.
Concepts (which merely extend to the possibility of an object) and sensible intuitions (which give us something without allowing us to cognise it thus as an object) would both disappear.
Of Beauty as the symbol of Morality Intuitions are always required to establish the reality of our concepts.
If they are pure concepts of Understanding, the intuitions are called schemata.
On account of its limitation, it required the intuition of objects in sensible representation, conversio ad phantasmata; but these intuitions were not the intellectual act, they were only its necessary conditions.
We thus have a sure scientific basis for the moral intuitions which we do not individually stay to analyze when we are called upon to determine the morality or the immorality of certain actions.
In short, Spencer maintained that intellectual and moralintuitions had arisen from gradually organised and inherited experience.
Thus even biologically we may admit that the validity of intuitions depends on the nature of mind itself, socially confirmed from age to age.
But Mr Arnold does not seem to include in this capacity the intuitions of natural science, at least not for Ossian; yet nothing can be more certain than that Ossian and his fellow-countrymen enjoyed them.
Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent.
And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray.
Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.
Woman's intuitions are great, and there be those who say they are unerringly true.
All this is quite different from the mental intuitions and instincts, assumed by various modern philosophers as common to all mankind.
Jouffroy, following in the steps of Kant, declares these a priori beliefs or intuitions to be altogether relative to the human mind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intuitions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
