Edith Stein Quotes

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story. But if I sing a line that's plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story. Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It's open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

I never try to guess what anyone else will take from a movie. Every movie is such a different experience for each and every person. I don't like it when people try telling people what they should take from a movie. You should go see it with fresh eyes and see for themselves.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.