Quotes About Experience

He felt like he had lost something. Something more than his virginity. Like something had been taken from him and he could never get it back. He felt like a punk thinking this. Iris had given it up to him. So why was he feeling like this? Why was he feeling like some promise the universe made had been broken? Damn.

When the trumpeter picked up a solo and the music lifted past where the voices had just been, I felt like my ribs were shattering. There was so much in all of it. Just. So. Much. I wanted to say to Iris, It all feels like it's trying to drift out into somebody's eternity.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that knowing how you should be reacting to a loss has anything to do with how you react when it's your loss.

Un jour, d'elle-même, elle se farda les ongles en rouge. Jamais, jusque là, elle n'avait osé le faire. Ce qui la saisit, ce fut que ses ongles ressentirent le froid du vernis. Elle eut alors le sentiment que notre corps en a toujours de nouvelles à nous apprendre.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

perhaps I am a Lacanian because I formerly did Chinese

Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn't even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

poézia je nutná práve do tej miery, nako?ko je neužito?ná a slobodná, pretože ?u?om prináša zjavenie skuto?nosti mimo skuto?nos?, skúsenos? skrytých významov vecí, tajomné spolo?enstvo so svetom krásy, bez ktorého ?udia nemôžu ani ži?, ani vies? mravný život.

Everything comes from experience; yet not from actual experience, reiterated by each individual with each generation, but instead from experience accumulated by the entire ancestry of the species in the course of its evolution.

Renunciar a la ilusión que ve en el alma una sustancia inmaterial, no es negar su existencia, sino al contrario comenzar a reconocer la complejidad, la riqueza, la insondable profundidad de la herencia genética y cultural, así como de la experiencia personal, consciente o no, que en conjunto constituyen el ser que somos, único e irrecusable testigo de sí mismo.

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

Le vieux Hemingway énonçait une règle très simple: l'écrivain devait toujours s'en tenir aux sujets qu'il connaissait le mieux.

Notre vie n'est pas derrière nous, ni avant, ni maintenant, elle est dedans.

An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It's what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it — potentially — a tragic situation. You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it.

I'd very much like to 'conclude' something from this experiment. Or that it should raise a question in my mind, and a commitment to get to the bottom of the matter, to investigate, to come up with an outline of the beginning of an answer, however ill-defined or trite it might be . . . But no. I'm here to see, hear, observe - to experience. Let others explain.

Life's a trip and then you fall.

people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.

The logical aspect of your life and the experiential dimension of your life are diametrically opposite to each other.

Searching for truth is itself a big illusion because whatever we term the truth is always and everywhere. We don't have to search for it; we don't have to seek it; it always is. Now the only problem is your inability to experience life beyond what you call mind; or right now your capability to experience life only through the limited dimension that we call mind. That is the only problem.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.