Human Experience Quotes - Page 13

• War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.

  Dan Snow

  Peace, War, Extremes

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• If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

  Carl Jung

  Faith, Powerful, Soul

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• Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dog, Kids, Men

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• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Games, Literature

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• Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Spring, Different

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Nature, Book, Thinking

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• Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

  Jane Addams

  Children, Attitude, Soon Enough

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Eating Together, Bread, Meals

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• The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Waiting, Trying, Done

  Patricia Wentworth (2007). “The Girl In The Cellar”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

  Topher Grace

  Valentine, Years, Males

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• Human experience is usually paradoxical.

  George Eliot

  Paradoxical, Humans

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

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• The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

  Charlene Weir

  Family, Powerful, Cost

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• The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

  Claire Messud

  Art, Humans, Works Of Art

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• We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  World, Drink, Rate

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• The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Ideas, Limits

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

  Russ Roberts

  Incredibles, Results, Stability

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

  Kobo Abe

  Connections, Frightening, Humans

  Kobo Abe (1970). “Inter Ice Age 4”

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• One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are sexually attracted to one another. They may not act on the knowledge.They may file it away for future reference. They may deny it. They may never see each other again. But the moment has happened, and for an instant all other considerations are insignificant.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, Two, People

  Roger Ebert (2008). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, p.177, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.

  Maria Popova

  Journey, Love Is, Leaving

  "When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships". www.brainpickings.org. April 6, 2015.

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• Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Poetry, Way

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Mind, Males, Invisible

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.36, Vintage

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• I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should have the full range of human experience. It's an art form like any other art form. For me, that's the importance of preserving it.

  Brenda Romero

  Art, Sex, Thinking

  "Women Working In Games: Brenda Brathwaite On Maternity Leave, Making The 'Playboy' Game And Hope For The Future". Interview with Tracey John, www.mtv.com. December 13, 2007.

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• Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Two, Romance, Mind

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

  Mason Cooley

  Fall, Doe, Patterns

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• They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Taken, Self, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1902). “History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900”

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