Quotes of: Human-existence Keyword

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Alan Lowenthal

But here's the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn't proposing that as a concept; he's simply articulating what humans believe about themselves. That first they thing and therefore then they exist. What follows on from that is even wo...

Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

Ornette Coleman

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he's capable of. Novelists draw up the map of existence by discovering this ...

The Art of the Novel

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

Erich Fromm

Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education. Because this human being exists, meaninglessness, however hard pressed you are by it, cannot be the real truth. Because thi...

Between Man and Man

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

Herbert Read

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

Monica Johnson

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

C.G. Jung

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

Daniel Barenboim

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

B. R. Ambedkar

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

Milan Kundera

Ceremony-the wine of human existence" - Morris R. Cohen

Book of Love, Laughter and Romance

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

Carl Jung

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

Jim Harrison

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. ...

David Cronenberg

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

C.G. Jung

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physic...

Richard Dawkins