“Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.” — Nocturnus Libertus Copy Share Image
“Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Prayer, for centuries, has only ever been a way to make humans beings sit still, take stock of the human condition and… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition.… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that when you have political capital, you should use it in a manner that helps improve the human condition.… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“You want to hide,” he says. “I know. Because you feel like you’re not allowed to think the things you think. Or… — Gretchen Powell Copy Share Image
“Openness to paradox allows both the understanding and the acceptance of our human condition as “both/and" (both a saint and a sinner)… — Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham Copy Share Image
“Old bureaucrat, my companion here present, no man ever opened an escape route for you, and you are not to blame. You… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow… — Peter Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
“we want to expand Chapell’s FCF to more explicitly account for the global contexts. This means that we must fit the FCF… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
“- “Do you know the difference between us and them… We are awake. We sense the truth: that something is deeply wrong… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man.… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Human beings are settlers, but not in the pioneer sense. It is our human occupational hazard to settle for little. We settle… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too… — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
“For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.” — Liza M. Wiemer Copy Share Image
You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
“What pays for all this?" "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
