Top 1200 Human Condition Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the pain go away. What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.

Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.

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 technology.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it salvation is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.

I think what it is a condition of human - of love. How important that is and integral that is too everybody even a ghost.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has.

When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France, say, or the human condition. But it's also a very good book about plagues, and about how people react to them - a whole category of human behavior that we have forgotten.

We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition.

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could see. So many of them were really more about the human condition and about relationships between people, and they were smaller films that had a much greater impact on me as a human being.

Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership.... a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. Bu biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.