Human Existence Quotes - Page 5

• The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Spiritual, Views, Foundation

  "A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture". Book by Sushama Londhe, 2008.

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• Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Essence, Justice, Care

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.91, Stanford University Press

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• The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Real, Rare Events, Tragedy

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). "Ocho cerditos: reflexiones sobre historia natural", Vintage

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• La describo (la nueva estética) "radicalmente": Digo estética = ser humano. Es una fórmula radical. Pongo la idea de la estética directamente en el contexto de la existencia humana, y entonces tengo todo el problema en la mano, ellos tengo no un problema especial, tengo una "holografía" (reaccionando sobre una antigua sugerencia del público como una ligera broma, fh) no sé exactamente lo que es una holografía... (1973

  Joseph Beuys

  Manos, Ideas, Especial

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• Merece la pena repetir que una imaginación poderosa no es una falsa visión exterior, sino una intensa representación interior, y una energía creadora constantemente alimentada por la susceptibilidad a las más pequeñas minucias de la experiencia, que reproduce y construye en enteros frescos y renovados; no la confusión habitual de hechos comprobables con las ficciones de la fantasía y la inclinación pasajera, sino una amplitud de asociación ideal que informa cada objeto material, cada hecho incidental con recuerdos de largo alcance y residuos históricos de pasión, trayendo a una nueva luz las relaciones menos obvias de la existencia humana.

  George Eliot

  Recuerdos, Potente, Pasión

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• How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

  R. D. Laing

  Giving, Our Actions, Who We Are

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• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

  William Greider

  Rights, Done, Benefits

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• La música, la gran música, distiende el espíritu, suscita emociones profundas y nos invita casi naturalmente a elevar la mente y el corazón a Dios en todas las situaciones de la existencia humana, las alegres y las tristes. La música puede convertirse en oración.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fe, Oración, Inspiración

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• I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Risk, Today

  Hannah Arendt (2000). "The Portable Hannah Arendt", Penguin Group USA

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• Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

  Henri Nouwen

  Unique, Mosaics, Stones

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• When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

  Erlend Loe

  Hands, Imagination, Trying

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

  Bede Griffiths

  Beautiful, Heart, Discovery

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• La filosofía es el pensamiento de los hombres sobre el pensamiento, el razonamiento y la imaginación humanos, y los valores reales de la existencia humana.

  Charles William Eliot

  Philosophy, Real, Men

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• Espiritualidad significa despertar. La mayoría de las personas, aunque no lo sepan, están dormidas. Nacen dormidos, viven dormidos, se casan dormidos, crían hijos dormidos, mueren dormidos sin despertar jamás. Nunca comprenden la hermosura y la belleza de esto que llamamos existencia humana.

  Anthony de Mello

  Vida, Niños, Aprendizaje

  "Acercarse a Dios : cómo rezar". Libro de Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

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• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soldier, Joints

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, School, Boys

  H.L. Mencken (2012). "Mencken Chrestomathy", p.308, Vintage

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• Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

  Martha Beck

  Healing, Artist, Darkness

  Martha Beck (2012). “Finding Your Way In A Wild New World: Four steps to fulfilling your true calling”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

  Aberjhani

  Nature, Fear, Humanity

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• So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Love, Men, Order

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• Nunca sabemos que somos seres hasta que amamos. Y entonces es cuando conocemos los poderes y las potencialidades de la existencia humana.

  Jean Toomer

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Existence

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• La interdependencia es una ley fundamental de la naturaleza. Hasta los insectos más pequeños sobreviven gracias a la cooperación mutua basada en el reconocimiento innato de su interconexión. Nuestra propia existencia humana depende tanto de la ayuda de los demás que nuestra necesidad de amor está en la base misma de nuestra existencia. Por eso necesitamos un auténtico sentido de la responsabilidad y una preocupación sincera por el bienestar de los demás.

  Dalai Lama

  Amor, Relación, Sabio

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• Así, el hombre sensible a los estímulos artísticos reacciona ante la realidad de los sueños como el filósofo ante la realidad de la existencia; observa atentamente, y disfruta de su observación: pues es a partir de estas imágenes como interpreta la vida, de estos procesos como se entrena para la vida.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Reality, Men

  "The Birth of Tragedy". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, "Preface to Richard Wagner" (p. 13), 1872.

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• Si dejamos que Cristo entre en nuestras vidas, no perdemos nada, nada, absolutamente nada de lo que hace que la vida sea libre, hermosa y grande. No. Sólo en esta amistad se abren de par en par las puertas de la vida. Sólo en esta amistad se revela verdaderamente el gran potencial de la existencia humana.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Belleza, Fe, Inspiración

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks”, p.35, Ignatius Press

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• The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Love Is, Important

  "El arte de amar". Libro de Erich Fromm, 1956.

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• Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beauty, Long, Lasts

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