Human Experience Quotes

244 quotes by 211 authors

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. — Frederick Buechner
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity… — Diablo Cody
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular… — Lascelles Abercrombie
I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is. — Jennifer Aniston
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything… — Pema Chodron
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand… — Rebecca Goldstein
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great… — Lance Secretan
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a… — Edwin S. Shneidman
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our… — Leo Buscaglia
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel… — Chaim Potok
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent.… — Anne Hathaway
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and… — Max Born
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience… — Emma Goldman
We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to… — Harold S. Kushner

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