Quotes About Experience

The menu is not the meal.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

All Philosophy is Biography

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

Life is just a bag of pot.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

History teaches everything, even the future.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.