“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The slave protests against the condition of his state of slavery; the metaphysical rebel protests against the human condition in general. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But we do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability… — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“The Liquid Pantomime by Stewart Stafford Time is life’s shareholder: Youth’s dark angel investor, Midlife’s white shark creditor, The old's Arctic blood… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“...and I came to the conclusion that in any project we design and develop, the size and degree of complexity of the… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“We’re terribly worried about Uncle Henry. He thinks he’s a chicken.’ ‘Well, why don’t you send him to the doctor?’ ‘Well, we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If we walk down the sidewalk of any street in America a significant number of the people we pass by, if we… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Even natural languages have personalities. 'Escapement' is the name of a device, a toothed wheel, that controls the motion of the hands… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“He has no doubts, there is nothing you can say to sway him, to give him hope or trust. He is a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Letter to the tech giants: When fame and abundance kiss somebody’s feet before that person is wise enough, he or she is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“...nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for… — Svetlana Boym Copy Share Image
“A world that confuses luxury with success, has absolutely zero understanding of the human condition. That's why they idolize rich and filthy… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Demanding yet denying the human condition makes for an explosive contradiction. And explode it does, as you and I know. And we… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“Wounds heal. Scars fade. Awful memories can be overwritten with better ones if given the chance. The little imperfections of our psyches… — August Clearwing Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“In my country, politics is tragic, and all our great politicians have been tragic figures, either saints or demons. You, clearly, are… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
“A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Overall, it seems now possible to draw a reasonably good explanation of why the human condition is a singularity, why the likes… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Hazel sometimes had a fantasy daydream at school where the teacher walked into the classroom and yelled, ISN’T EVERYTHING HORRIBLE? DOESN’T THE… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
“We are all bisexual to begin with. That is a fact of our condition. And we are all responsive to sexual stimuli… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“There’s something about death that gets our attention. When it’s close—in the family or shared by the community—it sends us back to… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“...it changes the central fact of the human condition: that each of us lives behind one set of eyes, and not another;… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“The ethical and philosophical justifications for basic income – social justice, freedom and economic security – have been well established. They are… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
