Quotes About Experience

There are several ways for the body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.

The structure 'world,' with its double movement of sedimentation and spontaneity, is at the center of consciousness.

The sensible world is full of gaps, ellipses, allusions.

The unity of the object does not lie behind its qualities, but is reaffirmed by each one of them: each of its qualities is the whole. Cézanne said that you should be able to paint the smell of trees.

The phenomenon is not the object, nor is it the subject. It is not the object in that it concerns me: in presenting it, I understand myself. It is not the subject in that it still has to become for itself. The phenomenon is the hidden frame of 'subject' and 'object'—object returning to itself, subject outside of itself. -From Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Hegel

What does it mean to think?: we rediscover a path that the thing has already traversed.

What dreams in us is our existential field.

God is not known apart from experience, but we take hold of him in the finite.

The unconscious: excess of the perceptual over the notional.

Alg?m görsel, dokunsal ve i?itsel verilerin toplam? de?ildir. Bütün varl???mla, bütünlüklü bir ?ekilde alg?alr?m: Ayn? anda tüm duygular?ma konu?an biricik bir yap?y?, biricik bir varl?k biçimini kavrar?m.

The perceiving mind is an incarnated mind.

Infantile prehistory does not remain inert in the adult. Rather, infantile prehistory is perpetually re-created by the adult's current attitudes.

L'Être est ce qui exige de nous création pour que nous en ayons l'expérience.

Lebenswely = ...wild being and wild mind--'mute' experience that must itself speak.

Philosophy, precisely as 'Being speaking within us,' expression of the mute experience by itself, is creation. A creation that is at the same time a reintegration of Being...for...it knows itself to be a Gebilde and wishes to surpass itself as pure Gebilde, to find again its origin. It is hence a creation in a radical sense: a creation that is at the same time an adequation, the only way to obtain an adequation...Being is what requires creation of us for us to experience it.

I found in the experience of the perceived world a new type of relation between the mind and truth...We experience in it a truth which shows through and envelops us rather than being held and circumscribed by our mind.

The contact with the perceived is not ignorance and is not knowledge.

Our glances are not "acts of consciousness," each of which claims an invariable priority, but openings of our flesh which are immediately filled by the universal flesh of the world.

Perception teaches us an ontology that it alone can reveal to us.

No more than the sky or the earth is the horizon a collection of things held together, or a class name, or a logical possibility of conception, or a system of 'potentiality of consciousness': it is a new type of being, a being by porosity, or by generality, and the one before whom the horizon opens is caught up, englobed, within it.

The instability of levels produces not only the intellectual experience of disorder, but the vital experience of giddiness and nausea, which is the awareness of our own contingency and the horror with which it fills us.

Each perception is a vibration of the world, it touches well beyond what it touches, it awakens echoes in all my being in the world, it is super-significant.

Since things and my body are made of the same stuff, vision must somehow take place in them; their manifest visibility must be repeated in the body by a secret visibility. "Nature is on the inside," says Cézanne. Quality, light, color, depth, which are there before us, are there only because they awaken an echo in our body and because the body welcomes them.

We experience a perception and its horizon "in action" rather than by "posing" them or explicitly "knowing" them.