Human Experience Quotes

244 Human Experience quotes by 207 unique authors

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience… — Kenneth Tynan
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. — Lewis Mumford
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of… — Susan Sontag
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but… — William Saroyan
With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be… — Mary McDonnell
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the… — Francis Spufford
When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods… — John Templeton
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. — Morris Raphael Cohen
It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the… — Elon Musk
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to… — Chaim Potok
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of… — Xander Berkeley
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human… — Ted Dekker
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into… — Nadine Gordimer
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The… — Donald Kagan
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience. — Charles Bukowski
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history… — Jon Meacham
There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess… — Sada Thompson
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and… — Erland Josephson
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence… — Norton Juster
It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then… — Derek R. Audette
I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings… — David Walker
One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of… — Lisa Hoffman
You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make,… — Steve Jobs

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