The Human Condition Quotes

The Human Condition Quote of the day

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.

It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition

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

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Scoundrels are always sociable.

To think is to say 'no.'

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

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

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Hope is what makes the human condition liveable

Habits form a second nature.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

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 you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.