To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>