Human Condition Quotes - Page 11

• Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.

  Denzel Washington

  Christian, Men, Spirituality

  Source: the-talks.com

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• The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

  Brian Aldiss

  People, Political, Belief

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

  Albert Bandura

  Perspective, Trying, Outlook

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

  Vivian Gornick

  Fiction, Produce, Feels

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.

  John D. MacDonald

  War, White, Differences

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• I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was even very precise. So as far as I'm concerned, the kind of photography I did in the FSA was the kind of photography I still do today, because it is based on passionate concern for the human condition. That is the basis of all the work that I do.

  Jack Delano

  Photography, Thinking, Passionate

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• Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Approval

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• Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

  Thom Mayne

  Reality, Modern, Symbolic

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• I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

  Sara Quin

  Thinking, People, Stressful

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• The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning any practice depends on intention. Intention depends on intuiting-at least a little bit-the suffering inherent in the human condition and the pain we feel, and cause, when we act out of confusion. It also depends on trusting-at least a little bit-in the possibility of a contented, satisfied mind.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Compassion, Practice

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.

  John le Carre

  Real, Writing, Artist

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• Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Two, Iraq

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

  Steve Kanaly

  Privacy, Mega, Exposed

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• As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

  Alan Moore

  Understanding, Vietnam, Realizing

  "The Transhuman Antihero: Paradoxical Protagonists of Speculative Fiction from Mary Shelley to Richard Morgan". Book by Michael Grantham, 2015.

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• You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Stars, Light, Trying

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

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• Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Family

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• For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

  Elayne Boosler

  Comedy, Newspapers, Minutes

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• Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Democracy, United States

  Address to the New American Strategies Conference, October 28, 2003.

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• We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.82, Discovery House

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• The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Technology, Today

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

  Brian Wesbury

  Creativity, People, Community

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• The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

  Paul Kurtz

  Leaving, Atheism, Deceit

  Paul Kurtz “Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz”, Transaction Publishers

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• Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

  Bill Gates

  Clear Goals, Progress, Mark

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• My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

  William Trevor

  Fiction, May, Aspect

  "William Trevor: the keen-eyed chronicler" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Reading, Book, Design

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