Top 1200 Human Existence Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.

Human existence basically is??a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still themost important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

An individual human existence should be like a river

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence.

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and all of the things that support human existence upon this globe. Even minor fluctuations of climate could change the distribution of fish, … upset agriculture,…and inundate costal cities…… Such changes could occur at a faster rate perhaps than human society can evolve.

As human beings, we need to evolve with time, and if you fail to do that, your existence will suffer.

The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

?Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.