An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements. ' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can. ' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.
Trance is a natural everyday experience.
Art isn't a product. It's an experience
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminatedever.
To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
The seat of faith. . . is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating.
It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.
I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.
There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.
There's no wrong way to experience a film.
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.
Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.
If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.