Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems,… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Why hadn’t he realized this before? Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You simply do not understand the human condition,” said the robot. Hah! Do you think you do, you conceited hunk of animated… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“It can be seen not just as part of the human condition, but central to what it is to be human. We… — Tom Inglis Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
“The history of the human race demonstrates very convincingly that free speech is the exception to the human condition, not the rule.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“In his seminal book, Man’s Search for Meaning, the psychiatrist Victor Frankl described the essence of what has come to be known… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it.… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.'… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other… — Rod Blackhurst Copy Share Image
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“I’m a pessimist of the human condition, as a rule, but contemplating the future and how the Carpenter kids could contribute to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Man is born in order to think (there he is, Kirill, finally!). Except that I don't believe that. I've never believed it,… — Boris Strugatsky Copy Share Image
