Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
An intellectual understanding that is not backed by experiential knowledge can lead to mind games and deceptive states.
Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.
Whatever has been the highest experience in your life should become the centerpiece around which your life is structured.
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. - Will Durant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. - Immanuel Kant
The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have. - Isaac Asimov
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found -given- by experience. - Carl Jung
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. - C.S. Lewis
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