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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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 There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Nov 28,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #experience #meaning #John Stuart Mill #On Liberty

Were all embodied beings to have their wish fulfilled, no one would suffer. No one wishes for suffering.

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 Were all embodied beings to have their wish fulfilled, no one would suffer. No one wishes for suffering.

Feb 26,2023

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In the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread

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 In the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread

Jan 23,2023

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#anxiety #quotes #philosophy #suffering #søren kierkegaard #experience #humanity #existence #the sickness unto death #despair

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

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 We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Mar 11,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #experience #knowledge #intelligence #Maurice Merleau Ponty #Phenomenology of Perception #phenomenology

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats,

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 A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats,

Dec 29,2021

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Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.

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 Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.

Nov 26,2021

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I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for

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 I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for

Nov 25,2021

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I do not even know whether I am the one living it or if my life is living me.

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 I do not even know whether I am the one living it or if my life is living me.

Nov 06,2021

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True experience consists in reducing one’s contact with reality whilst at the same time intensifying one’s analysis of

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 True experience consists in reducing one’s contact with reality whilst at the same time intensifying one’s analysis of

Sep 03,2021

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I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having

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 I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having

May 19,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #experience #knowledge #perception #epistemology #Bertrand Russell #Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

Which of us, turning to look back down the road along which there is no return, could say that we had walked that road as

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 Which of us, turning to look back down the road along which there is no return, could say that we had walked that road as

May 09,2021

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Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since

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 Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since

Apr 23,2021

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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

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 A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Apr 05,2021

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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities,

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 The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities,

Mar 16,2021

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That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena;

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 That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena;

Mar 04,2021

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#quotes #literature #books #philosophy #Arthur Schopenhauer #experience #learning #genius #perception #The World as Will and Representation #abstraction

What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?

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 What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?

Feb 25,2021

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#quotes #life #Feelings #philosophy #experience #humanity #emotions #existence #Robert Nozick #Anarchy State and Utopia

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

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 My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

Feb 22,2021

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The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience.

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 The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience.

Feb 21,2021

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For the aesthete, tragedies are interesting to observe, but uncomfortable to experience.

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 For the aesthete, tragedies are interesting to observe, but uncomfortable to experience.

Feb 18,2021

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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The

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 Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The

Feb 10,2021

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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.

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 One must give value to their existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.

Feb 09,2021

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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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 The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Jan 20,2021

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In chaos, there is fertility.

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 In chaos, there is fertility.

Jan 16,2021

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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 Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Jan 15,2021

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