Best 251 quotes in «human condition quotes» category

When we see the brain we realize that we are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction.

Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it

Wounds heal. Scars fade. Awful memories can be overwritten with better ones if given the chance. The little imperfections of our psyches become overshadowed by the people whose love we cherish because they cherish us despite our faults; physical, emotional, spiritual, or otherwise. This thing we call the human condition with all its bittersweet blind corners and senseless humor evolves from within ourselves and not because of some pre-ordained reverie we desire to cast in the constellations. All in all it is what makes life worth living.

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

Your conflicts reflect subminds in dispute. Such is the human condition

Why am I doing this? Why do I want to know the names and functions of all the beautiful structures I've spent my years violating? Because I don't deserve to keep them anonymous. I want the pain of knowing them, and by extension myself: who and what I really am. Maybe with that scalpel, red hot and sterilized in tears, I can begin to carve out the rot inside me.

You see, in the end we're all miserable. It's the human condition.

WONDERLAND It is a person's unquenchable thirst for wonder That sets them on their initial quest for truth. The more doors you open, the smaller you become. The more places you see and the more people you meet, The greater your curiosity grows. The greater your curiosity, the more you will wander. The more you wander, the greater the wonder. The more you quench your thirst for wonder, The more you drink from the cup of life. The more you see and experience, the closer to truth you become. The more languages you learn, the more truths you can unravel. And the more countries you travel, the greater your understanding. And the greater your understanding, the less you see differences. And the more knowledge you gain, the wider your perspective, And the wider your perspective, the lesser your ignorance. Hence, the more wisdom you gain, the smaller you feel. And the smaller you feel, the greater you become. The more you see, the more you love -- The more you love, the less walls you see. The more doors you are willing to open, The less close-minded you will be. The more open-minded you are, The more open your heart. And the more open your heart, The more you will be able to Send and receive -- Truth and TRUE Unconditional LOVE.

Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.

You see, Great Caesar. she said, this is the way in which mortals retain the power of the divine---in every earthly choice they make. 'But it's a paradox.' he said. 'Human beings are in control of everything and nothing at all.' 'Yes, she answered, her coy smile spreading joy across her lovely face. It is that simple.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

A digital frontier to reshape the human condition.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

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

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

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

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

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

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

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

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

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

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

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

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

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

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.

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

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.

Scoundrels are always sociable.

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