Quotes About Experience

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Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait [If youth but knew, if old age but could].

If youth but know, And old age only could.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

In the beginning was the Topos. Before – long before – the advent of the Logos, in the chiaroscuro realm of primitive life, lived experience already possessed its internal rationality; this experience was producing long before thought space, and spatial thought, began reproducing the projection, explosion, image and orientation of the body.

il me faisait découvrir des auteurs qui savaient mettre tout plein de mots qui coupaient dans mon ventre, et alors ça faisait du bien de saigner un peu.

vu comment il nous traitait, c'était sans doute qu'il avait vécu deux ou trois trucs par le passé qui changent le cœur des hommes.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

I am made of all that I have seen.

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I only ask to drink experience deep; And, in the sad, sweet goblet of my years, To find love poured with all its smiles and tears, And quaffing this, I too shall sweetly sleep.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone—but never hustled.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.