Quotes About Experience

Wenn er nämlich wahrhaft gelebt hat, kann das nur in fernen Landen gewesen sein.

Man nahm den Wald nur wahr, wenn man sich in ihm befand.

the inevitable tension between knowledge and innocence

suggesting that, though their situation might be strange , there was nothing new about suffering .

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

We all have a memory and can memorise things. The more important thing is how we act on that which we know.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

Pain demands to be felt.

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

You can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation.

Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan.

They never experience the past tense. It's just another thread to them. They don't remember stuff, they relive it.

We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

You said it was colorful. What changed?" "I don't know. Maybe nothing. I just— I don't actually remember the dreams when I wake up any more." "So how do you know you still have them?" Pag asked. Fuck it I thought, and tipped back the last of my pint in a single gulp. "I know." "How?" I frowned, taken aback. I had to think for a few moments before I remembered. "I wake up smiling," I said.

We all come into the story half way through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

This is it. The final conscious experience. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

Floaters swarmed through his eyeballs like schools of panicked fish.

If there's one thing I'm the world's greatest expert on, it's how it feels to be me. And

synesthete.

Agnostic philosopher Antony O'Hear agrees: 'there are aspects of our experience and existence more fundamental than science, and on which science depends for its possibility. So science cannot be used, as it often is, to undermine those features of our natures.'35 The idea that the mind is 'nothing but' the brain is ultimately a deduction from the assumption of naturalism.