Human Condition Quotes
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.
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 have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.
There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.
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.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.
I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.
Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.
I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.
Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.
The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.
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.
Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.
Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of 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.
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.
