“Lamenting the vagaries of fate may leave us with a galling sense of helpless frustration, which many escape by transforming the tragedy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
“Union with God is not something we acquire by a technique but the grounding truth of our lives that engenders the very… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“The human condition comprehends more than the conditions under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“for the existentialists, what generated anxiety was not the godlessness of the world, per se, but rather the freedom to choose between… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis:… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was… — Jack Delano Copy Share Image
The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“Is any of it real? I mean look at this. Look at it! A world built on fantasy. Synthetic emotions in the… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“Words speak, "A Cure For Wellness" "Volmer: Do you know what the cure for the human condition is? Disease. Because that's the… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is. If there is such a thing as wisdom, and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think the media's primarily an interesting backdrop - a fertile backdrop, in which we can discuss a great deal involving the… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
“Through all the years of considered opinion and thoughtful contribution that offers to explain the human condition, we are yet to see… — Steve Carlsson Copy Share Image
I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The human condition is plagued with a labyrinth of shortcomings, frailties and limitations that hinder man from reaching his fullest potential. Therefore,… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
“Vast migrations of people—some voluntary, most not—have shaped the human condition. More of us flee from war, oppression, and famine today than… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“But then I realized, they didn't mean their own mothers. Not those weak women, those victims. Drug addicts, shopaholics, cookie bakers. They… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“The future of the world no longer disturbs me; I do not try still to calculate, with anguish, how long or how… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Yet in its life, for eight hundred years, virtue alone, that one word, has illuminated and explained something of what we think… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor and publisher, was serving as the American ambassador to France, he often impressed French intellectual with… — Paul Kropp Copy Share Image
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
