Human Existence Quotes
193 quotes by 158 authors
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as…
— James Buchan
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
— B R Ambedkar
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from…
— Denis Waitley
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The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
— Ernest Holmes
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We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
— Jean Toomer
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The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human…
— Meher Baba
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Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To…
— Paulo Freire
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Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
— Tennessee Williams
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If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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‎Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our…
— Dalai Lama
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Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
— Charles William Eliot
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep,…
— Anthony de Mello
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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