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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I have never played with a band. I have always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.