Basic human needs Quote by Dan Eldon

“The truth is that once one has been to these challenging, terrible places, they’re always strangely drawn back, because there is nothing that can…

— Don Eldon

“We have this distinctly human concept of good and bad. Nature doesn't have that. It just is. I'm not comfortable with that. I'm not…

— Joe Hutto

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There,…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change.…

— Daisaku Ikeda

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

— George Orwell

The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.

— Teller

“If you can manage to see yourself from the outside and accept yourself as a vulnerable organism within the biosphere, rather than focusing on…

— Andreas Weber

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of…

— Anonymous

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble

It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and…

— Sharon Creech

“...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period; so that…

— Primo Levi

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

— Charles Tart