We can be sure, he [Kant] says, that anything we shall ever experience must show the characteristics affirmed of it in our a priori knowledge, because these characteristics are due to our own nature, and therefore nothing can ever come into our experience without acquiring these characteristics.
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Instead of developing the child’s own faculties of discernment, and teaching it to judge and think for itself, the teacher uses all his energies to stuff its head full of the ready-made thoughts of other people. The mistaken views of life, which spring from a false application of general ideas, have afterwards to be corrected by long years of experience; and it is seldom that they are wholly corrected.
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But though he could not recapture it, he could remember it, as one remembers a vivid experience at some period of one’s life when one was in effect a different person.
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And so, onwards… along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes – into your goal, with nothing left over.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
If I wanted to render precisely the perceptual experience, I ought to say that ‘one’ perceives in me, and not that I perceive.
Perhaps the truth is simply that one would need many lives to enter each realm of experience with the total abandon it demands.
We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.