Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
“Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.…” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as… — Nick Offerman 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
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. — Bill Gates 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
“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
When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed,… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the… — Tom Skerritt Copy Share Image
“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The first truth, Buddha taught his disciples, is that suffering is part of the human condition. If we simply try to avoid… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“perused a selection of love eggs. According to a handwritten card, concubines in the Secret Palace had used them to strengthen their… — Greg Keen 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
It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Al-e-Ahmad’s invocation of existentialist and absurdist themes in the context of Tehran’s slums underlined a shared predicament. Following Hedayat, he spoke of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“See, that’s the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“In our day and age, global society has been saturated with the wrong teaching of false positivity. The denial of darkness never… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it.… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev 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 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
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
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get… — Garth Davis Copy Share Image
“Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.” — H.G. Mewis Copy Share Image
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
