Top 1200 Human Existence Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

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.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.

My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).

The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.

My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.

But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in every phase of human life. This lies mainly in recognition that the micro phase, the particular or national traditions, must find their context and fulfillment in the macro phase, the global or panhuman phase of human existence.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spiritó a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration of art and science, a deeper grasp of human psychology, a deepening of the symbolic representations of our existence and feelings as given in religion and culture, the formation of an international order based on cooperation and nonviolent competition. It seems not too much to hope for these things.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity is a certain reverence before the primordial mystery of existence, for the world about us is a fearsome mode of being. We do not judge the universe.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.