Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 4
“Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.”
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman.
Referring to the life of a fiction writer
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
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Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence
Context: I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.
Mark Manson
(1984) American writer and blogger
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 1, “Don’t Try” (p. 9)
“A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.”
Mark Rothko
(1903–1970) American painter
As quoted in 'Mark Rothko', Dorothy Seiberling in LIFE magazine (16 November 1959), p. 82
1950's
“Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments.”
Vijay Govindarajan
(1949) American academic
Source: How Stella Saved the Farm. 2013, p. 80.
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
Walter Pater
(1839–1894) essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer
Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)
Context: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Michael Oakeshott
(1901–1990) British philosopher
Chap. 2 : Experience and Its Modes
Experience and Its Modes (1933)