“I think I took him to the beach that winter's day to show him that it offered a truer image of the… — Robert Finch - The Outer Beach Copy Share Image
“Our disability is discursive: we simply do not know how to talk about these things any more. For the last thirty years,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
“people always let you down. It was just part of the human condition. Look at Kat and Callie. One had tried to… — Christina Garner 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
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
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no… — Paul Tournier 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
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Prayer, for centuries, has only ever been a way to make humans beings sit still, take stock of the human condition and… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
“We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls,” she told him. “Even the purest, even the… — David Gemmell 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
You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
“Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the… — Stewart Stafford 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
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
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
“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
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human… — Brian Bowers Copy Share Image
“Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) was a profoundly important analysis of human states of mind - a kind of early… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
