Human Existence Quotes

193 Human Existence quotes by 157 unique authors

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake
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
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
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. — B R Ambedkar
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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-BahÃ¡
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
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
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. — Ernest Holmes
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. — Jean Toomer
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
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
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — Tennessee Williams
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
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
‎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
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence. — Charles William Eliot
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
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
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. — William Shakespeare
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all… — Lord Acton
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is… — Immanuel Kant
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth… — Norman Cousins

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