Direct Experience Quotes

51 quotes by 50 authors

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In… — James Cameron
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the… — Wendell Berry
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an… — Carl Sagan
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but… — Rudolf Carnap
How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have? — Ken Keyes Jr.
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. — Carl Jung
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for… — Ansel Adams
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. — Fernando Pessoa
To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and… — Mark Epstein
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over… — Noah Levine
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. — A. R. Ammons
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an… — Robert Dallek
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....… — Terence McKenna
The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of… — Chogyam Trungpa
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… — Michael Pollan
Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality. — Pema Chodron
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and… — Samael Aun Weor
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The… — David Graeber
Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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