"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
― Henri Frederic Amiel
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Experience
― Henri Frederic Amiel
More From Henri Frederic Amiel
- "Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."
- "Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
- "Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."
More In Experience
- "I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric."― Cate Blanchett
- "About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."― Kurt Vonnegut
- "The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."― George Santayana