Sentences with phrase «flashes of insight which»

Whitehead's genius is evident in the intuitive flashes of insight which are not only brilliant in themselves but are also consistent with his metaphysical system.

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Tom refuses, responding instead that God can still deliver her at which point Cassy receives a revelatory insight — a plan that flashes through her mind and becomes the mechanism of her freedom through escape and Tom's through martyrdom.

Men watched apples fail for centuries before Newton had the flash of insight from which he developed the law of universal gravitation.

But this kind of caution is perfectly compatible with Whitehead's own confidence that «there is no first principle which is in itself unknowable, not to be captured by a flash of insight.

Klein sought a flash of spiritual insight for his viewers, in which he was the medium of revelation: unlike the American action painter's revelation of personal identity, Klein's work purported to evoke an intuition into the cosmic order.