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1 " For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging the foundations of a house. I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer master, but an animal among animals; under the Martian heel. "
― H.G. Wells , The War of the Worlds
2 " What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation. "
― Arthur Schopenhauer , The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1
3 " Gut feelings are often the first inkling you receive that something is not quite right in any situation. "
― Catherine Carrigan , Unlimited Intuition Now
