Human Experience Quotes

244 Human Experience quotes by 207 unique authors

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin… — Jacques Lacan
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about;… — Alfred Korzybski
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness… — Stephen King
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed… — Maureen Johnson
It’s the same reason I don’t get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are… — Tina Fey
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have… — Helen Keller
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history… — Muhammad Iqbal
It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the… — Ray Lyman Wilbur
The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human… — Unknown Author
When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience. — Richard Holloway
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions… — Unknown Author
The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ...… — Frederick Soddy
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright… — F. Sionil Jose
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our… — Varley O'Connor
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of… — Orson F. Whitney
Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted,… — Chris Hadfield
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. — Eric Kandel
Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience. — Buzz Aldrin
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer. — Leonard Mlodinow
I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day. — Marcia Gay Harden
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training… — Gloria Steinem
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. — Alice James
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within… — James Henry Breasted
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against… — Barbara Kingsolver
Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on… — Wolfgang Schauble

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