Human Existence Quotes

193 Human Existence quotes by 157 unique authors

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom,… — Christopher McDougall
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style… — Rudolf Arnheim
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion… — Yann Martel
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of… — Joan D. Vinge
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence — Smiley Blanton
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human… — William Greider
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual… — Rene Dubos
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
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that… — Norman Vincent Peale
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale
Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration… — Gene Cernan
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. — Erich Fromm
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality,… — David Cronenberg
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. — Carl Jung
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'… — Milan Kundera
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a… — H. L. Mencken
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. — Herbert Read
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love… — Julian Sands
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and… — Tom Wolfe
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and… — Thomas Wolfe

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