"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."

-- A. R. Ammons

#Experience Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Direct Quotes

“Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.”
“We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour.”

Source : "How To Bring Men To Christ".
“An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.”
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Source : Punch 23 May 1917 "Fairies"
“Tohru: Shigure is always smiling. But, I wonder if I gave him some problems with my request. Yuki: The only ones who can truly understand what Shigure is thinking is Hatori and... a few other people. Someone has said this before. It is said that he is like a "tide..." A tide that carries you away when you get too close to it. The tide touches your feet... But when you reach down to touch it, it will have already departed. It is within your reach, yet you may never catch it...”
“Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.”
“Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.”

Source : Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.
“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

Source : Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32

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