Human experience Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Human experience is usually paradoxical.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human experience Humans Paradoxical
The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It's a paradox we call reality, so keepin' it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
“Naval officers were not mother's sort; very few people were her sort in those days, and that was her trouble - a very authentic,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“There is no one way of seeing. Nor is there a right way of seeing. Yet simply to accept the notion that both the… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“know that I’m not a human being having a spiritual experience. I’m a spiritual being having a human experience.” — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I think it's something to do with the nurturing side of the psyche; tying up a sunflower or whatever and helping it grow, it… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
