Experience Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world…

— Hermann Hesse

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human…

— Erich Fromm

“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of contemplation, it…

— Alan W. Watts

This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years…

— Julian Huxley

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself…

— Karl Jaspers

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

— Albert Schweitzer

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man, of the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking…I knew I should not find in any philosophy a…

— Mark Twain