If one should find himself unable to rise immediately to pure thought, which is the highest, or first, part of the soul, he may begin by opinion, and from it rise to Intelligence.
Thus, in the purificatory virtues, "prudence consists in not forming opinions in harmony with the body, but in acting by oneself, which is the work of pure thought.
There must, then, be such a science forming the first part of the transcendental doctrine of elements, in contradistinction to that part which contains the principles of pure thought, and which is called transcendental logic.
It is not found in the sphere of pure thought or poesy, because it is nowhere found in actual life.
Without wishing to weaken this idea, Eric sought to give her the assured peace which can be found in the realms of pure thought.
We know when we are well, not by any process of ratiocination, by applying from without a standard of health deduced by pure thought, but simply by direct sensation of well-being.
Of such intelligibility we had a type, as Dennis maintained, in the objects of pure thought, ideas and their relations.
So that knowledge, to be perfect, must not be of sense, but only of pure thought, as Plato suggested long ago?
They say that number is the substance or the essence of things; number is not sensuous, nor is it pure thought, but it is a non-sensuous object of sense.
It seldom or never rises from sensuous to pure thought.
What now appears is that the unity of the Notion which is absolute existence, makes its appearance as necessity, and it presents itself first as the unity of self-consciousness and consciousness, as pure thought.
But what Plato expressed as the truth is that consciousness in the individual is in reason the divine reality and life; that man perceives and recognizes it in pure thought, and that this knowledge is itself the heavenly abode and movement.
To know this is the interest and business of Philosophy; this is investigated by pure thought in and for itself, which only moves in such pure thoughts.
Some players choose true music with pure thought in it, and do their best to play it well after the manner called for by the composer.
But even now I am sure we understand that good music comes from pure thought, and pure thought comes from a good heart.
It is pure thought--thought thinking itself--the thought of thought.
By this it was to be disenthralled from the bondage of sense[553] and raised into the empyrean of pure thought "where truth and reality shine forth.
Leibniz thus starts from the possible, as discovered by pure thought, to determine in an a priori manner the nature of the real.
While Hume maintains that induction must be regarded as a non-rational process of merely instinctive anticipation, Leibniz argues to the self-legislative character of pure thought.
It is the most comprehensive and the most perfect, but still only one out of innumerable others which unfold themselves to the mind in pure thought.
Footnote 4: "Dialectics treat of pure thought and of the method of arriving at it.
He, too, first considered the force and efficacy of grammar as the organ of pure thought.
The Essence of God or Pure Thought cannot be understood; no words can express it, for it is beyond all relation and knowledge is relation.
Rationalism was an attempt to measure reality by reason alone; it implied the identity of the spheres of religion and philosophy, and strove to express faith in the form of concepts or terms of pure thought.
Feeble or insufficient as we may judge this realism in the regions of pure thought or pious feeling, it was supremely powerful in art.
Whether we regard the ontological or the psychological series, only the world of pure thought, the Idea, is indissoluble, subject to no process of becoming, and superior to all change.
Even the most purely rational minds who find the universe in "pure thought" are driven against their rational will to visualize this "pure thought" and to give it body and form and shape and movement.
I would commend to any sardonic psychologist whose "malice" leads him to derive pleasure from the little weaknesses of philosophers, to turn his attention to the ideal systems of supposedly "pure thought.
Let him, however, clear his mind of the current admiration for monotheisms, and impress upon himself that he who would form a conception of supreme intelligence must do so under the rules of pure thought, not numerical relation.
In pure thought we must understand the dichotomic process to be the distinction of a positive by a privative, both logical elements of the same thought, as I have elsewhere shown.
Does it therefore follow that the organization out of which reflective thought grows is the work of thought of some other type--of Pure Thought, Creative or Constitutive Thought, Intuitive Reason, etc.
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