“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life,… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of… — Smiley Blanton Copy Share Image
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea,… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“If stress stopped lactation, the human race would never have evolved because stress has always been an integral part of human existence.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
“We live this life by a kind of conspiracy of grace: the common assumption, or pretense, that human existence is 'good' or… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing,… — Melissa Rosenberg 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
Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and… — Mortimer Adler 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
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“A house of simple people which stands empty and silent in the vast Southern country morning sunlight, and everything which on this… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“One must go to Dostoievsky who experienced on occasion ecstatic epileptic auras to which he attached momentous significance, to find an adequate… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“When we feel frustrated, our first inclination is to change whatever isn't working for us. We can try to accomplish this by… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“There is an urgent need…to see once again that faith is a light, for once the flame of faith dies out, all… — The Word Among Us Press Copy Share Image
“Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“The social system does not and never can exist which allows no harm to come to anybody. Conflict of impulse and desire… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
“No one wants to suffer. But much as we would all like to live a totally happy life, suffering is an inescapable… — Richard G. Causton Copy Share Image
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and the end of human existence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind. — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image