All 3 Uses of
intuition
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I do not care to be admired causelessly, emotionally, intuitively, instinctively-or blindly, I do not care for blindness in any form, I have too much to show-or for deafness, I have too much to say.†
Chpt 3.2 *intuitively = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- You declare to your children that it is rational to loot, to torture, to enslave, to expropriate, to murder, but that they must resist the temptations of logic and stick to the discipline of remaining irrationalthat skyscrapers, factories, radios, airplanes were the products of faith and mystic intuition, while famines, concentration camps and firing squads are the products of a reasonable manner of existence-that the industrial revolution was the revolt of the men of faith against that era of reason and logic which is known as the Middle Ages.†
Chpt 3.7intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- Admit that the whole of your struggle, your doubts, your fakes, your evasions, was a desperate quest for escape from the responsibility of a volitional consciousness-a quest for automatic knowledge, for instinctive action, for intuitive certainty-and while you called it a longing for the state of an angel, what you were seeking was the state of an animal.†
Chpt 3.7intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
Definition:
something known based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning; or the ability to know things in such a manner