Best 251 quotes in «human condition quotes» category

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

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.

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

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

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Scoundrels are always sociable.

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

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.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

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" 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 is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

The human condition: lost in thought.

The human condition itself inspires me.

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

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

Vows begin when hope dies.

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

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

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

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

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect 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?

A scientific fact has no value to me unless it can be implemented to improve human condition.

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

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