Complacency Quote by Georges Bataille

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

— Vladimir Nabokov

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

— George Eliot

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

— Ida Tarbell

Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a…

— Georges Bataille

The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.

— Roberto Esposito

“The inner aim of thought is never fully realized until it ripens into vocal utterances through which others can have access- albeit indirect- to…

— Stephen Batchelor

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

— H. P. Blavatsky

The mind is still there even when thoughts are not...

— David Fontana

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual…

— Jacques Maritain

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti