Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“You’re fucked up, mister. But you’re cool.” “I believe that’s what they call the human condition,” said Shadow.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges? — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at… — Eileen Brennan Copy Share Image
“Nature cannot be reprogrammed forever. Humans are not meant to run like software. You cannot hack the human condition.” — Alex London 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
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
“Some days I survive by accident, not hope. The pain never stops—it just changes costume. And still, somewhere in the static, there’s… — Jonathan Harnisch 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
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
But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
One of the things I admire so much about Atom Egoyan is that again and again he makes movies about the human… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition. — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them,… — Charles de Foucauld Copy Share Image
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get. — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition; just accept it. But the greatest human skill is that… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving. — Tom Herman Copy Share Image
“Why even try to understand the human condition if humanity revealed itself as grotesque, dark, not worth it.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition. — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. — Socrates Copy Share Image
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
