Human Condition Quotes
332 Human Condition quotes by 288 unique authors
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Scoundrels are always sociable.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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One must be something to be able to do something.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
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To think is to say no.
— Emile Chartier
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In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.
— William Shakespeare
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For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.
— William Shakespeare
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After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
— Marcel Proust
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
— William Hazlitt
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I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
— John Updike
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Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because…
— Roni Horn
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If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
— Paul Valery
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Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
— Samuel Johnson
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There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
— Samuel Johnson
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