"My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress."
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"If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels."
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
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"Experience is only half of experience."
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"Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth."
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"No one as ever completed their apprenticeship."
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"The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties."
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"With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her."
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"For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses."
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"The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things."
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"The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences."
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"Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."
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"A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism."
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"We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable."
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"Rapture's self is three parts sorrow."
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"Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos."
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"The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet"
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"The person who experiences most wins."
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"What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives."
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"He who tastes not, knows not."
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