T Quotes
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“The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.”
“The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.”
“The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.”
“The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.”
“The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own.”
“The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.”
“The experience of making a movie, you start to see it everywhere. It's just this amazing mechanism that your brain does because it just so badly wants to be helpful and keep all the information that you need as accessible as possible.”
“The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.”
“The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction. It is the experience of being caged in: all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped.”
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
“The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.”
“The experience of our generation:
that capitalism will not die a natural death.”
Source: The Arcades Project
“The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.”
Source: On Education
“The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.”
“The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe, cruel, and oppressive measures. Instead of endeavoring to establish their authority in the affection of their subjects, they think they have no security but in their fear.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
“The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.”
“The experience of pleasant pain is familiar to many, perhaps most, people. (Not you? Think again: ever enjoyed the pleasant muscle ache of a good day's exercise, or the challenging burn of a spicy curry?) Many more, although they may not be consciously aware of it, also have some experience with erotically arousing pain: biting, scratching, pinching, mild hair-pulling and hickeys have an honored place in many folks' sexual repertoire. If seeking out and/or eroticizing pain is sick, then it's a sickness about as rare as the common cold.”
Source: Spanking for Lovers
“The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.”
“The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.”
“The experience of psychoanalysis was probably more useful to me as a writer than as a neurotic, although there may be a false distinction there.”
“The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.”
“The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.”
“The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.”
“The experience of riding in a subway or elevator calls to mind Bertrand Russell's remark that much of modern anxiety stems from the time we spend in unnatural proximity to strangers without the preliminary sniffing that is instinctive in animals, including us.”
Source: By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons
“The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.”
Source: The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
“The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“The experience of shame may tend to lend legitimacy to the structure of authority that occasions it, for the majesty of judgment is affirmed in its very capacity to injure.”
Source: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression
“The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.”
Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“The experience of slavery is the bedrock on which Caribbean society has been founded.”
Source: Exploring Shadeism
“The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.”
“The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.”
“The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.”
Source: DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF
“The experience of tasting food is far more multi-sensory than is the case with hearing, sight or touch, which is why it requires the most sophisticated part of our brain to process it. In fact, eating is influenced by hearing, sight or touch, as well as flavour: we prefer apples that crunch loudly, steaks that look blood-red, sauces so smooth they seem to caress the inside of our throats.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life”
“The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.”
“The experience of the Allies who vainly tried to locate one self-confessed and convinced Nazi among the German people, 90 per cent of whom probably had been sincere sympathizers at one time or another, is not to be taken simply as a sign of human weakness or gross opportunism. Nazism as an ideology had been so fully “realized” that its content ceased to exist an an independent set of doctrines, lost its intellectual existence, so to speak; destruction of the reality therefore left almost nothing behind, least of all the fanaticism of believers.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself.”
“The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.”
Source: The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
“The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.”
“The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.”
“The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.”
“The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.”
“The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.”
Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”
Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of opposites in alchemy
“The experience of the threshing floor will not kill you but bring the gold out of you”
Source: The Complete Leader
“The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.”
Source: The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison
“The experience of this demoralizing crisis [of the Babylonian exile], which appeared to negate all the central elements that Yahweh had ordained for Israel's well-being, could easily have meant the end of Israel's religion. Remarkably, it provoked instead an almost explosive flowering of theological literature during the exilic period.”
“The experience of this demoralizing crisis [of the Babylonian exile], which appeared to negate all the central elements that Yahweh had ordained for Israel's well-being, could easily have meant the end of Israel's religion. Remarkably, it provoked instead an almost explosive flowering of theological literature during the exilic period. (p. 139)”
“The experience of this sweet life.”
Source: The Divine Comedy Reference With Modern English Translation of the Epic Poem: Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.”