“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
“I sighed, he sighed, the wind and flowers sighed too. I think those marble statues sighed along as well, in their lack… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so… — Atalina Wright Copy Share Image
Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
With lies on your tongue seek to deceive You've fallen victim to the human condition And it's lead to your defeat — All That Remains 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
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
There was a time when events that define the human condition were subject to very limited and time-delayed analysis. In the 21st… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“I used to think, that when my old inner demons started creeping back into my life, that it was a sign of… — Kate Wicker Copy Share Image
“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“This perpetual success of war and failure of peace is then said to be “the human condition”—but it is only the condition… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“The reality of the human condition is such that, according to Porter (and I agree), we must “salvage our fragments of happiness”… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Life and the human condition are the exact same thing and it makes no difference, the design is sadness, gravitational and old,… — Gabe Habash Copy Share Image
“Modern life has domesticated us. We wake to alarms, live by schedules, and often feel disconnected from the natural rhythms that sustained… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process. — Brian Wesbury Copy Share Image
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“A scientific fact has no value to me unless it can be implemented to improve human condition.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“Let us imagine a number of men in fetters, and all condemned to death, some of whom are executed each day in… — Balise Pascal Copy Share Image
Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Like depression, the effects of anxiety extend beyond the body and mind to the entire being, affecting not only one’s sense of… — Henry Emmons Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“As Peter Drucker said, “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective,… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image