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"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"We just had a near-life experience!"
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
Dream
"Consciousness is a born hermit."
Consciousness
"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
Philosophy
"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
Friendship
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
Change
"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
Fun
"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
Man
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man
"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
Life
"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
Knowledge
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