Quotes about experiment
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Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.”
Source: Aleph (2011)
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
It's a Magical World
Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
Variant: Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Source: Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
Context: The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.
“Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them”
Variant: I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
Source: A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
The Believer interview (2013)
Context: Yeah, our view of reality, the one we conventionally take, is one among many. It’s pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don’t actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what’s going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings. We perceive our own perception, and that perception is to us the entirety of the universe. I believe magic is, on one level, the willful attempt to alter those perceptions. Using your metaphor of an aperture, you would be widening that window or changing the angle consciously, and seeing what new vistas it affords you.
“The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.”
Source: The Sufis
“That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.”
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
Source: Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Source: City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
“Rose lit up. “I’d totally help with that. Sydney’s my friend, and I’ve got experience with—”
Source: Bloodlines: Silver Shadows
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”
Source: Little Women
Source: The Feminine Mystique
Variant translations: The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms — it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties — this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
As quoted in After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration (1981) by Peter Barker and Cecil G. Shugart, p. 179
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
As quoted in Introduction to Philosophy (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Context: The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man.
Introduction I. Of the Difference Between Pure and Empirical Knowledge
Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)
Variant: That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.
Context: That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses, and partly of them selves produce representations, partly rouse our powers of understanding into activity, to compare, to connect, or to separate these, and so to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which is called experience? In respect of time, therefore, no knowledge of ours is antecedent to experience, but begins with it. But though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows, that all arises out of experience. For, on the contrary, it is quite possible that our empirical knowledge is a compound of that which we receive through impressions, and that which the faculty of cognition supplies from itself (sensuous impressions giving merely the occasion)... It is, therefore, a question which requires close investigation, and is not to be answered at first sight,—whether there exists a knowledge altogether independent of experience, and even of all sensuous impressions? Knowledge of this kind is called à priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge which has its sources à posteriori, that is, in experience.
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics" (1950)
1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950)
“We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”
Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.
Part V, Prop. XXIII, Scholium
Variant: We feel and know that we are eternal.
Source: Ethics (1677)
“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Vol. 1, p. 17
The Foundations of a Creed (1874-5)
Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World (2010), Introduction
Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)
1970s, Proclamation 4417 (1976)
Variant: I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise -- that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated.
First line
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Disturbed's David Draiman Offers 'Solution' To Illegal Music Downloading http://www.webcitation.org/64oENbO3B, Blabbermouth.net, 11 July 2003)
Corrine Dunn, "A polished Don Giovanni graces the Phil Stage", Naples Daily News (November, 2003) http://www.jennykellyproductions.com/prod_mozart_review.htm
Source: "Powerful Song, Man" by Jeffrey Tucker, The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, August 1997, UNZ.org, 2016-05-22 http://www.unz.org/Pub/RothbardRockwellReport-1997aug-00009,
Vice-presidential candidates' debate (5 October 1988); Lloyd Bentsen's famous response included the line "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy".
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 64
Source: Boria Majumdar "I'll play with anyone for my country: Sania Mirza"
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Human Immortality: its Positive Argument, p.297
After the Revolution? (1970; 1990), Ch. 3 : Democracy and Markets
Time and the Art of Living (1982)
Source: Uncle Tungsten (2001), pp. 312–313
Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (1992)
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 56
in Art of this Century, February 12 – March 2, 1946, Peggy Guggenheim Papers on the work of Clyfford Still; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 203
1940's
Source: undated quotes, Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003,' (2004), p. 30.
Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 325
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2000s
Ch LXXIII
Magick Without Tears (1954)
Section 5 (p. 127)
Short fiction, You’ll Take the High Road (1973)