#phil

Any fear can limit the amount of activities you experience or goals you can accomplish. ↗

— Maribelle Boutros

#experience

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful. ↗

— John Dewey

#experience #nature #philosophy-of-life #communication

Experience by itself proves nothing. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience

When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion. ↗

— Susan J. Blackmore

#experience

An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#philosophical-reflection #experience

Experience is the treasure of any persona. ↗

— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

#philosophy-of-life #experience

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed. ↗

— Richard Bach

#anger

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices #choices-and-consequences #conclusions #consequences #decisions

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#life

The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has just that character of being common, yet individual, that belongs to aesthetic experiences. Some are sensitive to the sight, and the rest are not; to some of them it seems to convey something -- to others it is just a thing, a toadstool or what you will. ↗

— Susanne K. Langer

#experience