13 Metaphors for intuition

Intuition is therefore the light which must guide us into that undiscovered country conceded by mathematics, questioned by science, denied by common senseThe Fourth Dimension of Space.

Intuition is finite cognition, thought infinite cognition,

These two, viz. intuition and demonstration, are the degrees of our KNOWLEDGE; whatever comes short of one of these, with what assurance soever embraced, is but FAITH or OPINION, but not knowledge, at least in all general truths.

The pure intuitions, the categories, and the Ideas are functions of the spirit, and afford non-empirical (erfahrungsfreie) knowledge concerning the objects of possible experience (and concerning the possibility of knowledge).

Intuition is the only organ of reality; in sensation the presence of a real object as the cause of the sensation is directly revealed.

Willing is the continuation and completion of intuition; intuition was unconscious production, willing is conscious production.

It has to maintain both that intuitions are the foundations of all truth and certitude, and also that not all are true.

The first runs, "All intuitions are extensive quantities"; the second, "In all phenomena sensation, and the real which corresponds to it in the object, has an intensive quantity, i.e., a degree."

Even if your intuition is a fact, it is not an understanding.

On the other hand, the intellectual intuition of Schelling was not acceptable, nor even Kant's categories of the mind.

Intuition is a different order of knowledge, it is moulded on the very form of life, and it enables us to enter into life, to be one with it, to live it.

Intuitions, therefore, are an embarrassment, rather than a help to Intellectualism.

Even the self-evident and self-confident 'intuitions' that impress the uncritical so much with their claim to infallibility are really the results of antecedent doubts and ponderings, and would never be enunciated unless there were thought to be a dispute about them.

13 Metaphors for  intuition