Human Existence Quotes

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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
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. — Albert Camus
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence.Â Authentic philosophizing… — Herbert Marcuse
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than… — Karl Marx
AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long… — Mark Helprin
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a… — Don DeLillo
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the… — Tony Blair
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are… — H. L. Mencken
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage… — Virginia Woolf
The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the… — Claudia Rankine
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the… — Beatrice M. Hinkle
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo… — Ambrose Bierce
Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails… — Serj Tankian
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable… — Calvin Coolidge
We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In… — Pope Benedict XVI

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