Human Existence Quotes

193 Human Existence quotes by 157 unique authors

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. — Milan Kundera
The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression… — Ina May Gaskin
The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity… — Keith Haring
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life… — Ludwig von Mises
Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion. — David Richo
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see… — Arthur Keith
Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our… — Thomas Merton
I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and… — Fred Singer
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years,… — Joseph McCabe
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence,… — Kenzo Tange
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with… — Friedrich Engels
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of… — Adi Shankara
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and… — Jonny Lee Miller
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but… — Rollo May
Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can… — Josef Pieper
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of… — Erich Fromm
An individual human existence should be like a river — Bertrand Russell
It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most… — Lucy Larcom
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us… — Norman Mailer

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