Human condition Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

— Loren Eiseley

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.

— Pema Chodron

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate,…

— Kate Mosse

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't…

— Michael Schultz

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human…

— Frederick Lenz

“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.”

— David Mitchell

That's why we trust the Bible - it speaks to both realities: the unchanging human condition and the constantly changing cultural conditions. It speaks…

— Mike Yaconelli

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed…

— Nick Offerman

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka

“A basic guide for application offers this equation: The intention of the text The human condition of the text The human situation of the…

— Zack Eswine

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest…

— Ludwig von Mises