Quotes About Experience

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

What, then, does one experience of the You? -- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it. -- What, then, does one know of the You? -- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars.

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.

Of Enoch, who walked with Elohim, it is told that he had become one of the angels who was all eyes and wings. Thus is the poet. Everything in him perceives the things, and everything in him flies past the things. He is wholly in the one thing that he experiences, and yet is already and still in all the others at the same time.

The obstacle: for the improvement of the capacity for experience and use generally involves a decrease in man's power to relate—that power which alone can enable man to live in the spirit.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.

I looked you up, Arkady. You have a checkered career." "I'm flattered. I was unaware of having any career at all.

But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.

Most programmers, even experienced ones, are poor judges of how code actually performs.

Other than when you are very close to a deadline, however, you should not put off refactoring because you haven't got time. Experience with several projects has shown that a bout of refactoring results in increased productivity. Not having enough time usually is a sign that you need to do some refactoring.

To visit Florence without visiting churches and museums would be perverse.

A great deal of the information embedded in a work of art is not – yet at least – accessible just by looking at an image of it while sitting at home. The deepest and richest experiences are not virtual but physical: they involve looking at real things and talking to real people.

from a small one. That's because, if you are looking at the original, its impact is physiological. In the same way, standing next to a big tree feels quite unlike being next to a sapling.

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

The world is your school.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

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What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.

I like to listen to music that makes me feel a certain way—either it reminds me of something important that happened or a certain time in my life

Longevity is highly over rated.

Entertainment and art are not isolated.