Book Quote by Maria Semple

“I need to experience books, not just read them.”

— Lauren Morrill

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

— Alastair Reynolds

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.

— Frederick Lenz

All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

— Egon Friedell

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that…

— Herbert Marcuse

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible…

— Carl Jung

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

— Terence McKenna

In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience.

— Frederick Lenz

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and…

— Larry Harvey

Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully…

— Peter Senge