“But we do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The slave protests against the condition of his state of slavery; the metaphysical rebel protests against the human condition in general. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He has no doubts, there is nothing you can say to sway him, to give him hope or trust. He is a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Letter to the tech giants: When fame and abundance kiss somebody’s feet before that person is wise enough, he or she is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“...nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for… — Svetlana Boym Copy Share Image
“Demanding yet denying the human condition makes for an explosive contradiction. And explode it does, as you and I know. And we… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“A world that confuses luxury with success, has absolutely zero understanding of the human condition. That's why they idolize rich and filthy… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability… — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
“...and I came to the conclusion that in any project we design and develop, the size and degree of complexity of the… — W. G. Sebald 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
“The Liquid Pantomime by Stewart Stafford Time is life’s shareholder: Youth’s dark angel investor, Midlife’s white shark creditor, The old's Arctic blood… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
“We’re terribly worried about Uncle Henry. He thinks he’s a chicken.’ ‘Well, why don’t you send him to the doctor?’ ‘Well, we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If we walk down the sidewalk of any street in America a significant number of the people we pass by, if we… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Even natural languages have personalities. 'Escapement' is the name of a device, a toothed wheel, that controls the motion of the hands… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
