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Note that it is "unreflective," not "unconscious," nor yet merely "instinctive" conduct.
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCEJOHN DEWEY, ADDISON W. MOORE, HAROLD CHAPMAN BROWN, GEORGE H. MEAD, BOYD H. BODE, HENRY WALDGRAVE, STUART JAMES, HAYDEN TUFTS, HORACE M. KALLEN
They are the spontaneous expression of careless, wanton, unreflective youth.
WINE, WOMEN, AND SONGVARIOUS
Without stress and strain, without struggle, it just displaces the object which unreflective impulse had suggested.
ETHICSJOHN DEWEY AND JAMES HAYDEN TUFTS
Unreflective minds possess thoughts only as a jug does water, by containing them.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SOURCESJAMES WOOD
Logical conduct is, then, conduct which aims to remove ambiguity and inhibition in unreflective conduct.
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCEJOHN DEWEY, ADDISON W. MOORE, HAROLD CHAPMAN BROWN, GEORGE H. MEAD, BOYD H. BODE, HENRY WALDGRAVE, STUART JAMES, HAYDEN TUFTS, HORACE M. KALLEN
It is often said to be so: and perhaps we may say that it seems so to unreflective common sense.
THE METHODS OF ETHICSHENRY SIDGWICK
The light-hearted, luxurious, unreflective days were gone, never probably in our time to return.
UP AND DOWNEDWARD FREDERIC BENSON
Let it not for a moment be supposed that men such as those we speak of are weak and unreflective.
CHARACTERSAMUEL SMILES
He had a curious singleness of purpose, as unreasoning and unreflective as an animal in search of food.
THE DEBTORMARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
When applied to an individual it let loose upon him the pent up emotion of the mob—an emotion or unreflective rage and anger.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY FROM AN ESCHATOLOGICAL TO A SOCIALIZED MOVEMENTLYFORD PATERSON EDWARDS

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