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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
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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 growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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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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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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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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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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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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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
Effort
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
Dream
"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
Cards
"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
Experience
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."
People
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
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