#2,961

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,935

The so-called prejudices of the upper classes tend to consist of accumulated experiences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 468

#2,487

Approaching religion through art is not the caprice of an aesthete: aesthetic experience spontaneously tends to expand into a presentiment of religious experience.
From an aesthetic experience one returns as from a sighting of numinous footprints.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#2,252

If there existed a religious instinct, instead of religious experience, religion would lack importance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 366

#2,192

Concepts do not seem precise except to a man who has a merely external experience of the facts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 356

#2,172

Whoever takes pride in “having lived through a lot” should keep quiet so as not to prove to us that he has understood nothing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 353

#1,937

From the slums of life one returns not wiser, but dirtier.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,729

The deepest spiritual experiences do not come from profound intellectual meditations, but rather from the privileged vision of something concrete.
In the lararium of the soul we do not venerate great gods, but fragments of phrases, the slice of a dream.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,452

Newspaper reports are the modern substitute for experience.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 246

#1,141

Unless we inherit a spiritual tradition to interpret it, life experience teaches us nothing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 200

#1,052

The experience of a man who “has lived a long life” can usually be reduced to a few trivial anecdotes with which he decorates an incurable stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 187

#386

It is not only between generations where experience is lost, but also between periods of an individual life.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 80

#344

The virile age of thought is fixed not by experience, nor by years, but by the encounter with certain philosophies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 73

#231

We believe we confront our theories with the facts, but we can only confront them with theories of experience.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 56