Famous Quotes

"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."

Christopher Lasch on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Christopher Lasch

• "Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."

• "Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."

• "We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change."

• "The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time."

• "The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."