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It may be suggested that we divide them by their powers, and this suggestion is so far reasonable that we may well agree to divide the non-sensuous qualities, the sciences for example, on this basis; but we see no reason for resorting to their effects for the division of qualities sensuous.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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A non-sensuous power has to operate in order that the physical world may be known at all; that power has, further, in a manner unknown, to gather the fragmentary impressions of the senses, turn them into that which is mental, combine them into what is termed meaning.
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The failure to see the value of all this is due to the inattention of the advocates of Naturalism in regard to the non-sensuous structure of mind: the _Thing and its relations_ monopolise them so completely that they are blind to every reality non-sensuous in its nature, although they possess some amount of such reality in their very knowledge and adoration of the _Thing_.
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Yet, on the other hand, the consciousness of a kernel of our being, non-sensuous and spiritual in its nature, has for ever broken our satisfaction with the physical world and our own physical existence.
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In them all he has discovered the presence of a reality which is non-sensuous in its nature, and, which reveals itself [p. 207] in judgments of value that carry within themselves their own _necessity_ and _self-subsistence_.
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But in man we discover a transition stage from the sensuous to the non-sensuous, and it is in the latter that the meaning of the former can be obtained.
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They are non-sensuous realities which have moulded and shaped the lives of individuals and nations in varied degrees.
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This concession, and the attempt to live according to it, constitute a proof of the presence in some form of a non-sensuous reality and value in the constructions of materialistic monism itself.
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He must visualize states of the soul which are alien to the eyes of the body and translate into terms of the senses things which are wholly non-sensuous.
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They become a delineation of the non-sensuous, of the soul's progress of development.
Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English Rudolf Steiner 1893
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