"It is probable that what we call thought is not an actual being, but no more than the relation between certain parts of that infinitely varied mass, of which the rest of the universe is composed, and which ceases to exist as soon as those parts change their position with regard to each other." (Percy B Shelley, "On a Future State", 1815)
"Thought is symbolical of Sensation as Algebra is of Arithmetic, and because it is symbolical, is very unlike what it symbolises." (George H Lewes "Problems of Life and Mind", 1873)
"[...] thought is the representative or cognitive apprehension of relations among notions; imagination is the affective or felt apprehension of relations among images." (James M Baldwin,"Handbook of Psychology: Senses and Intellect", 1890)
"Thought is existence. More than that, so far as we are concerned, existence is thought, all our conceptions of existence being some kind or other of thought." (Thomas H Huxley, "Method and Results", 1893)
"Consequently, all truly strict and exact thought is sustained by the symbolic and semiotics on which it is based." (Ernst Cassirer, "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms", 1923)
"Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images." (Thomas E Hulme, "Notes on Language and Style", 1929)
"Analytic thought is based on detailed defined relations between two elements at a time. Intuitive thought is based on an emotional state associated with all the elements in the field of knowledge (overall impression). " (Tony Bastick, "Intuition: How we think and act", 1982)
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