Best 251 quotes in «human condition quotes» category

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Scoundrels are always sociable.

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

The human condition itself inspires me.

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

The human condition: lost in thought.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

Vows begin when hope dies.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

To think is to say 'no.'

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

A being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope. A being who bore meekly the jibes of the department, and went to his grave without having done one unusual deed, but to whom, nevertheless, at the close of his life appeared a bright visitant in the form of a cloak, which momentarily cheered his poor life, and upon whom, thereafter, an intolerable misfortune descended, just as it descends upon the mighty of this world!

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.

Acting activates every cell, never, neuron, and everything that happened to your DNA a million years ago as well as everything that will happen a million years from now. If we didn’t believe that, we wouldn’t be interested in acting. If acting didn’t include something more than we could ever comprehend, we don’t think we would want to pursue it. Acting is so incredible that it gives an audience the potential to experience anything that will ever happen in the history of the world. That is why we call acting the human condition. It takes an incredible amount of intensity and passion to truly be an actor.

A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

A human being's life and prospects must surely be improved by having a decent place to lay his or her head at night.

...and I came to the conclusion that in any project we design and develop, the size and degree of complexity of the information and control systems inscribed in it are the crucial factors, so that the all-embracing and absolute perfection of the concept can in practice coincide, indeed ultimately must coincide, with its chronic dysfunction and constitutional instability.

And it seemed as though for a moment, the world encapsulated them in a giant sigh. As if the world was exhausted by humanity—by the bellows of war and bullets, of hateful cries and grieving tears. Of all the pain, the endless pain humanity had brought into its peaceful existence. A great heaving sigh to wash it all away. But like the sea, when washed away, war only crashed harder, a surging line of arched backs and brackish tears.

A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour