Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.
The closest thing I have to a spiritual experience anymore is a Mocha Frappe from McDonald's.
We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's experience as a reference too.
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the minds of others.
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
Religion is nothing more than the study of other people’s experiences with God. But true spirituality is the opportunity to have your own experience with God.
If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
I would recommend to someone that has the money to experience the experience of giving to another and purchasing me a Veyron. A Bugatti Veyron. That will really make you want to give to your fellow man.
My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.
Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.