“To avoid misunderstanding: the human condition is not the same as human nature, and the sum total of human activities and capabilities… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“While the intellect allows us to function with clear knowledge of the physical world the intuition allows us insight into the deeper… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As Lord David Cecil has said: “The jargon of the philosophy of progress taught us to think that the savage and primitive… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“That in every life, without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we will age, and that we cannot elude death. These are the… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult for an outsider to grasp how very little value was placed on human life in camp. The camp… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“I ponder of something terrifying 'Cause this time there's no sound to hide behind I find over the course of our human… — Twenty one pilots Copy Share Image
“Saying that “life is short” is such a cliche. And it’s true. In fact, we only have five minutes to be here.… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It does, however, seem to me that fashionable Western self-loathing is fundamentally misplaced. Almost always it is directed at the fact of… — Meic Pearse Copy Share Image
“The Buddha likened humans to the lotus flowers. Out of the deluded mud of human existence, filled with greed, hatred, and delusion,… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
