Human Experience Quotes - Page 6

• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  Sam Harris

  Brain, Influence, Economy

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• If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

  Graham Greene

  Two, People, Together

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Ties, Government, Data

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• Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

  Larry Moss

  Nice, Acting, Want

  Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.64, Bantam

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• It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Echoes, Self

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• Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.

  Jose Saramago

  Love, Communication, Practice

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• God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Crazy, Mistake

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.101, Penguin

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• Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.

  Karen Karbo

  Queens, Writing, Moon

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• But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Important, Essentials, Vitamins

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• ...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

  Jacques Lacan

  Lying, Desire, Rooms

  Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (1988). “The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955”, p.223, CUP Archive

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• A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

  Simon Sinek

  Emotional, Humans

  "True Friendship: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

  Robert Duvall

  Character, Trying, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

  Will Self

  Confused, Eye, Futility Of Life

  "You may now turn over your papers" by Geoff Dyer, Mary Midgley and Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Know that originally none of us are from Earth. We all have natural origins off the planet. We are having human experience, but one thing we're going to have to come to understand - and I know that's a lot for some people - is that our heritage is within the galactic origin. We are going to come into alignment with that by remembering our individual origins - and that's going to be a very important part of our enlightenment process.

  Christine McCormick Day

  People, Important, Enlightenment

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Parkinson's, Humans

  "Helen Mirren: 'it's time we all understood Parkinson's disease'" by Denis Campbell, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2010.

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• The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

  William Gibson

  Frozen, Boundaries, Boxes

  William Gibson (1987). “Count Zero”, p.22, Penguin

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• Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

  Jaron Lanier

  People, Progress, Way

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• What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Writing, People, Honest

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations. In no other area of human experience has so much evidence existed for so long, and yet been attended by such a paucity of serious research and analysis - at least in the civilian domain. While the subject matter of UFOs itself is extraordinary, it is the absence of a serious human response to it that is most extraordinary.

  Steven M. Greer

  Long, Analysis, Research

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• As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls outside the scope of "normal" human experience.

  Peter Davenport

  Real, Fall, Sides

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• One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.

  Chris Hondros

  Believe, Mean, Humanity

  Chris Hondros (2014). “Testament”, p.2, powerHouse Books

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• And this is why studying the history of psi is important.  People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries.  Human experiences that continue to be repeated throughout history and across cultures, are not due to ignorance or lack of critical thinking, and demand a serious explanation.

  Dean Radin

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Two, People

  John Steinbeck (1993). “The Pearl”, p.86, Penguin

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• I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.

  Colin Farrell

  Mean, Moon, Heaven

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The capacity to become aware of the givens of our existence - such as change - and to actually welcome those as just part of our human experience releases the struggle.

  Roger Housden

  Struggle, Welcome, Release

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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