Quotes About Experience

The only way the past can survive and maintain its continuity is through the constant demand to experience the same thing over and over. That is why life has become a bore. Life has become boring because we have made of it a repetitive thing. So what we mistakenly call the present is really the repetitive past projecting a fictitious future. Your goals, your search, your aspirations are cast in that mold.

If the word is not the thing what the hell is it? Without the word you have no way of experiencing anything at all. Without the word you are not separate from whatever you are looking at or what is going on inside of you. The word is the knowledge. Without that knowledge you don't even know whether it is pain or pleasure that you experience, whether it is happiness or unhappiness, whether it is boredom or its opposite.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of 'you' is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond, but the beyond can never be experienced by you; it is when the 'you' is not there. Why are you trying to experience a thing that cannot be experienced?

In general, for many scholars writing today, what is problematic about consciousness is its "phenomenal quality" or the fact that "there is something it is like" to be conscious (Nagel, 1974). Piaget does not address this issue head-on but rather through addressing the more important problem of how subjects develop a meaningful understanding of themselves and the world.

The reflexes of interest to Piaget are distinguished from simple reflexes (e.g., sneezing reflex) in that they change as a result of experience and thus have a history (OI, p. 40).

This law of equilibrium, Piaget repeats, is not something external, imposed upon intellectual change from without; it is not a transcendent, Platonic principle. On the contrary, much like Kant's notion of the moral law, which is not internal to the individual, the law of equilibration is an immanent principle in experience (Piaget, 1977/1995, pp. 94, 154, 190, 216, 227, 243). Such a concept of the immanent versus the

Furthermore, objects at these substages are experienced as direct extension of the previous action.

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

To survive, you must tell stories.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.

Whether you are seeking adventure, or adventure is seeking you. You will find adventure, or adventure will find you.

E subito riprende il viaggio come Dopo il naufragio un superstite Lupo di mare

Reality is a nice place to visit, but I sure would not want to live there

Don't waste your youth growing up.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover

Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.