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Quote by William Golding

“Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.”

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William Golding was an English novelist, best known for his novel 'Lord of the Flies'. His works often explore themes of human nature, morality, and civilization. more

“Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.”

“Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.”

Mean Quality Experience Communicate Precision Subtlety

Author:F. R. Leavis

“If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.”

Ifs Long Asks Process Ideals Productions Posts Ask Me Post Production

Author:Park Chan-wook

“The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.”

Different Attention Experience Granted Pay Attention Accustomed Enjoyable

Author:Paul Bowles

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.”

Men Art Important He Man Experience Instruments Tea Substitutes

Author:Timothy Mo

“The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.”

Kind Experience Dirty Nurse

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“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.”

Should Moving Given Position Aspect Experience Fundamentals Mathematical Evident

Author:Martin Heidegger

“The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.”

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