Past Experiences

I’ve learned that fear

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future. Gabrielle Bernstein

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. Ernst Haas

Never limit your view

Never limit your view of life by any past experience. Ernest Holmes

The samsara is the

The samsara is the sense of self. I’ve had past experiences. I’m aware of the moment. I will have future experiences. Frederick Lenz

Your past experiences will

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature. Deborah

It is more rational

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work David Hume

…virtue is attended by

…virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness. David Hume

To consider the matter

To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, ’tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate … Read more

Custom, then, is the

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. David Hume

The notion that any

The notion that any one person can describe ‘what really happened’ is an absurdity. If ten – or a hundred – people witness an event, there will be ten – or a hundred – different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience. … Read more