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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.