It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology
Noam ChomskyStichwörter: art human-condition
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: human-condition
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: art human-condition
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
George EliotStichwörter: human-condition
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.
Lewis ThomasStichwörter: science nature human-condition
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
Herman MelvilleStichwörter: pain human-condition pity
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Karl MarxStichwörter: human-condition
No," I said, and suddenly knew there was something mean in the world I could not stop.
Z.Z. PackerStichwörter: human-condition
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
Stephen R. CoveyStichwörter: human-condition
We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.
George EliotStichwörter: human-condition
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