Traditional Quotes and Symbols
The supreme clear intuition has no object at all. Within this intuition man does not become conscious of something, he simply becomes conscious.
THINKING AND INTUITION
640. (844.) Thought is important; thinking is more important; but the most important is the thinker.
641. Associative automatism, a kind of non-volitional and unconscious mental vortex, is treacherous because, though it is not tiring, it is simply and solely destructive. However, study without conviction and interest, which can hardly be called intellectual at all, is only slightly better than that, because though it is similarly destructive, it is also tiring at least.
[The latter is better than the former because its tiring nature prevents man from keeping awake continuously.]
642. Problem-solving thinking is not real thinking, but only the intense degradation of thinking. The real thinking is creative thinking which means thinking at high intensity.
643. Reflection on problems is often a very concentrated thinking - save that the real subject of thinking is not »me«, rather it seems as if a heteron power focussed my attention to the topic. Whereas it is essential that a power should be present in my mind, it is also necessary that this power should be mine.
644. Thinking imbued with emotionality, which drifts toward a problem, is undoubtedly a kind of concentration: although not I am who concentrates, rather I am concentrated on.
645. Thematic thinking is the path from swirling thoughts to hyper-thematic thinking.
646. It is myself I always understand / perceive within intuition.
647. The essence of intuition always refers to myself. What is understood / perceived in the flash of intuition is always secondary, when compared to the inexpressible part of intuition that refers to myself.
648. (854.) A legmagasabb rendű, tiszta intuíciónak már nincsen tárgya. Ebben az intuícióban az ember már nem rádöbben valamire, hanem egyszerűen csak rádöbben.
648. (854.) The supreme clear intuition has no object at all. Within this intuition man does not become conscious of something, he simply becomes conscious.
649. The completeness of the sensus implies the completeness of a Janus-face: one half of it is understanding and the other half is feeling in its non-emotional form.
[The Latin word sensus means both »understanding« and »feeling« at the same time.]
650. The original unity of understanding and feeling is recovered for a moment in the true intuition.
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The supreme clear intuition has no object at all. Within this intuition man does not become conscious of something, he simply becomes conscious.
THINKING AND INTUITION
640. (844.) Thought is important; thinking is more important; but the most important is the thinker.
641. Associative automatism, a kind of non-volitional and unconscious mental vortex, is treacherous because, though it is not tiring, it is simply and solely destructive. However, study without conviction and interest, which can hardly be called intellectual at all, is only slightly better than that, because though it is similarly destructive, it is also tiring at least.
[The latter is better than the former because its tiring nature prevents man from keeping awake continuously.]
642. Problem-solving thinking is not real thinking, but only the intense degradation of thinking. The real thinking is creative thinking which means thinking at high intensity.
643. Reflection on problems is often a very concentrated thinking - save that the real subject of thinking is not »me«, rather it seems as if a heteron power focussed my attention to the topic. Whereas it is essential that a power should be present in my mind, it is also necessary that this power should be mine.
644. Thinking imbued with emotionality, which drifts toward a problem, is undoubtedly a kind of concentration: although not I am who concentrates, rather I am concentrated on.
645. Thematic thinking is the path from swirling thoughts to hyper-thematic thinking.
646. It is myself I always understand / perceive within intuition.
647. The essence of intuition always refers to myself. What is understood / perceived in the flash of intuition is always secondary, when compared to the inexpressible part of intuition that refers to myself.
648. (854.) A legmagasabb rendű, tiszta intuíciónak már nincsen tárgya. Ebben az intuícióban az ember már nem rádöbben valamire, hanem egyszerűen csak rádöbben.
648. (854.) The supreme clear intuition has no object at all. Within this intuition man does not become conscious of something, he simply becomes conscious.
649. The completeness of the sensus implies the completeness of a Janus-face: one half of it is understanding and the other half is feeling in its non-emotional form.
[The Latin word sensus means both »understanding« and »feeling« at the same time.]
650. The original unity of understanding and feeling is recovered for a moment in the true intuition.
www.amazon.com/Solum-Ipsum-Metaphysical-Andr%C3%A1s-L%C3%...
painting by Paul Feiler