Human Existence Quotes - Page 6

• The Light of one human being who discovers the Truth has been lighting human existence for thousands of years. Such is the power of a human being who realizes the Truth of who they are.

  Mooji

  Light, Years, Realizing

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• We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Heart, Vitality

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• WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.

  Christopher Locke

  Death, Color, Our World

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls (2009). “The Cluetrain Manifesto”, p.73, Basic Books

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• Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.

  Julian Burnside

  Communication, Vocabulary, Media

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

  Milan Kundera

  Reason, Fragments, Existence

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• The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression of sweet love and gratitude in a way no words can.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Baby, Gratitude, Sweet

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• The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Lying, Creativity

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

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Existence, Decoration

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.17, Image

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• 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.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Essence, Justice, Care

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.91, Stanford University Press

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• Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Normal, Kind, Natural

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century”, p.9, PublicAffairs

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• 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.

  Thomas Berry

  Peace, Lying, World

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (2006). “Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community”, Counterpoint LLC

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• I have no agenda. I know what I love to do and that's my religion. That's what I recommend to everybody. I did not invent that very ancient idea: "Do what you love and you will never work in your life." It's the pure truth. I think it's also the goal of human existence to accumulate as much of that feeling as possible. You can find that concept in anywhere from yoga to Bible.

  Eugene Hutz

  Yoga, Thinking, Goal

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

  Alan Lowenthal

  Climate, Aspect, Existence

  "Climate Change: Case Closed" by Rep. Alan Lowenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Unity, May, Human Nature

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• Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?' I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

  Gene Cernan

  Essence, Curiosity, Answers

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Missing, Existence, Humans

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 25, 2014

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• 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.

  Rollo May

  Believe, Creativity, Joy

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• The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Men, Law, Ideas

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• All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

  Will Durant

  Wall, Democracies Have, Government

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Agony, Oasis, Agonizing

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Light, Shadow, Hardship

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.573, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  A. N. Wilson

  Mother, Space, Intellectual

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

  Andrew Schneider

  Meaningful, Real, Sacrifice

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• I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.

  Thomas Koerfer

  Art, Character, Essence

  Source: www.koerferfilm.com

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• In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Dark, Men

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