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"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."	(Carl) Frederick Buechner
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."	Abraham Lincoln
"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."	Abraham Lincoln
"Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?"	Albert Einstein
"All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences."	Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."	Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."	Albert Einstein
"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."	Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."	Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."	Albert Einstein
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."	Albert Camus
"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Experience teaches only the teachable."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion."	Alexander Hamilton
"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself."	Alfred Jules Ayer
"A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, Would rather be the one experiencing the pain, Than to have to watch their friend suffer."	Amanda Gier
"A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer."	Amanda Grier
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Lawrence Kubie	Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonard Hodgson
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Manly P. Hall	Marquis de Sade	Miguel de Cervantes
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Napolean Hill	Noam Chomsky
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oscar Levant	Oscar Wilde
Paul Newman	Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Professor Elledge
Psalms 30:5 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard David Bach
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Rita Mae Brown	Robert
Robert Francis Kennedy	Stanley Lindquist	Stephen King
Sybil Marshall	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Terry Josephson
Tibetan Doctrine	Ty Howard	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
Vernon Law	Václav Havel	William Jennings Bryan
William Orville Douglas	Woody Allen	(Carl) Frederick Buechner