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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -- Erich Fromm
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
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. -- Denis Waitley
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. -- Noam Chomsky
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
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. -- Tom Wolfe
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. -- Gene Cernan
Time is the most precious element of human existence. -- Denis Waitley
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. -- William Blake
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. -- Jim Harrison
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. -- H. L. Mencken
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. -- Aristotle
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. -- Milan Kundera
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. -- William Blake
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. -- Erik Erikson
Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman. -- Victor Frederick Weisskopf
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. -- Carson McCullers
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. -- Marianne Williamson
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence. -- Yahya Jammeh
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
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. -- James Buchan
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that. -- Julian Sands
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. -- James Joyce
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
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. -- Thomas Wolfe
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. -- Arthur Keith
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended ... -- Freya Stark
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. -- Rudolf Arnheim
We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem. -- Robert Winston
Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it. -- Jim Rohn
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. It's impossible to do. -- David Cronenberg
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. -- Eugene Cernan
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward. -- Viktor E. Frankl
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 physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. -- Richard Dawkins
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader. -- Will Self
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. -- Todd Solondz
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. -- Anthony de Mello
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. -- Laura Marling
All human existence is a trick of light. -- Don DeLillo
Compassion is the chief law of human existence. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
An individual human existence should be like a river -- Bertrand Russell
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence. -- Angela Davis
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence. -- Desmond Tutu
The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath. -- William Blaikie
Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence. -- Alan Lowenthal
Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. -- Eckhart Tolle
Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. -- Frei Otto
The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence. -- Paulo Coelho
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. -- Arthur Miller
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness. -- Albert Einstein
The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. -- Dalai Lama
The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence. -- R. C. Sproul
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence -- Milan Kundera
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith. -- Serj Tankian
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. -- Stanislav Grof
Human existence basically isâ??â??a never to be completed imperfect tense. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it. -- Charles Baudelaire
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. -- Andrew Schneider
Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence. -- Randall Jarrell
The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. -- Lewis Mumford
Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. -- Henri Nouwen
Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable. -- Henri Nouwen
I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence. -- Stephenie Meyer
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about? -- Camille Flammarion
...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ... -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence. -- Max Lucado
Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God. -- Monica Johnson
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. -- Tennessee Williams
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. -- Adolf Hitler
Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence. -- Leon Krier
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. -- Herbert Marcuse
Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human. -- Robert Gober
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. -- Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind. -- Luis von Ahn
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. -- Simone Weil
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. -- Christopher Hitchens
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. -- Michael Fox
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. -- Daniel Barenboim
Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race. -- Del Shannon
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. -- Jaggi Vasudev
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' -- Robert Fulghum
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence. -- Charles William Eliot
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence. -- Volker Bertelmann
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. -- Albert Camus
He was my reason for existence,Descended from my cherished dreamInto my human dull subsistence,An angel, sacred and supreme! -- Tatyana K. Varenko
When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence. -- Karen Armstrong
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Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. -- Ernest Holmes
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. -- Boris Sidis
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. -- Marianne Williamson
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day -- Aung San
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. -- Carl Jung
Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings. -- Humberto Maturana
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. -- Joseph Conrad
Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations. -- G. Frank Lawlis
The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence. -- Deepak Chopra
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. -- Dean Mitchell
The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself. -- Deepak Chopra
I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. -- Jean Toomer
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? -- Milan Kundera
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence. -- Dennis Kucinich
Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge. -- Jostein Gaarder
and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended -- Stephen King
The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world. -- Edgar Morin

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