Given Experience Quotes
- The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. — Elif Batuman
- Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men… — Aldous Huxley
- That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly… — Aldous Huxley
- Our minds are also pulled and pushed by different experiences that act on our emotions, which could be compared with the wheels of the ther… — T Joseph Benziger