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Sensation (n.) tells ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us what a thing is, whereas thinking tells us what it is that this thing is, and feeling, lastly, tells us what this thing is to us.

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Sensation (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠intuition are thinking and feeling that have given up direction to accept the accidental — attuned to the absolutely contingent flux of events.

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Sensation (n.) when ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠abstract picks out only the flower's brilliant redness, detached from all other admixtures — nothing primitive about it, but the artist's differentiated function.

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Sensation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠conscious perception; intuition is unconscious perception — and thinking and feeling both grow out of this pair.

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Sensation (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠man a mere filled moment of time — his personality extinguished so long as sensation rules him and time whirls him along.