But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.