#human experience

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

— George Eliot

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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. ↗

— Donald Kagan

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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. ↗

— Brian Eno

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

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All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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