The Myth of Experience Quotes

“In Human, All Too Human, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argues that “partial knowledge is more often victorious than full knowledge: it conceives things as simpler than they are and therefore makes its opinion easier to grasp and more persuasive.”4”
― Emre Soyer, The Myth of Experience: Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons, and Ways to Correct Them

“Is there something important missing from my experience that I need to uncover if I hope to fully understand what is happening? • What irrelevant details are present in my experience that I need to ignore to avoid being distracted from what is happening?”
― Emre Soyer, The Myth of Experience: Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons, and Ways to Correct Them