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Experiments Quotes (page 30)

I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive Joseph Campbell
Maurice Merleau-Ponty quote: "We know not through our intellect but through our experience."
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence. Oswald Chambers
Novalis quote: "Play is experimenting with chance."
Play is experimenting with chance. Novalis
Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. Catherine Drinker Bowen
Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together. Etty Hillesum
... he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years. Christopher Isherwood
Arthur C. Clarke quote: "They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of..."
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. Arthur C. Clarke
Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with success. There are those games which we lose, those races in which we finish last, and those promotions which never come. Such experiences provide an opportunity for us to show our determination and to rise above disappointment. Thomas S. Monson
What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creatur? That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. Tom Wolfe
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. Martin Luther
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.. Paul Theroux
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience. Joseph Campbell
Naomi Wolf quote: "If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience..."
If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. Naomi Wolf
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us. Bell Hooks

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