Human Condition Quotes

332 Human Condition quotes by 288 unique authors

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent… — Rudolf Arnheim
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. — J.H. Wyman
The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of… — Charlize Theron
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy,… — May Sarton
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively… — Henri Frederic Amiel
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification… — Clare Short
Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into… — Hannah Arendt
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension… — Rollo May
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats. — Jack Kelly
The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process. — Brian Wesbury
There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition. — Frederick Lenz
I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They… — Dolph Lundgren
To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to… — Frederick Franck
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment,… — Diane Ackerman
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. — Albert Ellis
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here… — Ralph Ellison
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to… — Christopher Hitchens
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying...… — Ivan Illich

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