Human Existence Quotes - Page 8

• There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour into superficiality, and although I disagree with those people, I don't think it's the case that everyone who writes has to write politically or has to write in opposition to the really horrendous things that are going on on a political level in the world today. There are some writers who simply aren't any good at that and really should stay away from it.

  Tony Kushner

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help.

  Sara Benincasa

  People, Helping, Existence

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.

  David E. Cooper

  Plato, Reality, Light

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual distinction in our time of being the only institutions left that can posit some goal other than accumulation for human existence. I think that's enormously important because it is that drive for consumption more than anything else that fuels the environmental devastation around us.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Goal, Community

  Fuente: theotherjournal.com

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• I love Dr. Evil [from Austin Powers] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence - his desire to take over the world, and have the world reflect his own power lust.

  Jay Roach

  Talking, Evil, Lust

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Uno de mis objetivos es mostrar a la gente que muchas cosas que forman parte de su paisaje -que la gente es universal- son el resultado de algunos cambios históricos muy precisos. Todos mis análisis van en contra de la idea de necesidades universales en la existencia humana. Muestran la arbitrariedad de las instituciones y muestran de qué espacio de libertad podemos seguir disfrutando y cuántos cambios se pueden hacer todavía.

  Michel Foucault

  Ideas, Espacio, Personas

  Fuente: www.nicklewis.org

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• This era in human existence where so much information is out there, it's easy for someone like Donald Trump to use that to make his claim that information is fake news. And there are people who think 'I guess we should believe the President when he says it's fake news.'

  Greg Graffin

  Creer, Pensar, Gente

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.

  R. C. Sproul

  Goal, Existence, Humans

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2016

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• El auténtico conocimiento histórico requiere nobleza de carácter, una profunda comprensión de la existencia humana, no distanciamiento y objetividad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Historical Knowledge, Objectivity

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• El sábado es el regalo especial de Dios al hombre trabajador, y uno de sus principales objetivos es prolongar su vida y preservar eficazmente su tono de trabajo. La caja de ahorros de la existencia humana es el sábado semanal.

  William Blaikie

  Hombres, Especial, Ahorro

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• De todas mis películas, la gente es la que más me ha escrito sobre ésta... ...Había querido hacer El idiota mucho antes que Rashomon. Desde pequeño me ha gustado la literatura rusa, pero creo que Dostoievski es el que más me gusta y hacía tiempo que pensaba que este libro sería una película maravillosa. Sigue siendo mi autor favorito, y es el que -sigo pensando- escribe con más honestidad sobre la existencia humana.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, Attitude, Hate

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• La muerte no es la mayor tragedia de la vida. La mayor tragedia es lo que muere dentro de nosotros mientras vivimos. No debemos temer a la muerte. Sólo debemos temer existir sin haber percibido algo de las posibilidades que encierra la existencia humana.

  Norman Cousins

  Lying, Tragedy, Needs

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• Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still themost important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.

  Elías Canetti

  Heart, Law, Justice

  Elias Canetti (1962). "Multitudes y poder: Masse und Macht]"

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• The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation of the perfect man (and woman).

  Vera Stanley Alder

  Men, Zodiac, Perfect

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• If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.

  Jefe Medard

  Mean, Persistence, Men

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• 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

  Dolor, Gente, Intentarlo

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• He aprendido que la existencia humana es esencialmente trágica. Sólo el amor de Dios, revelado y actuado en Cristo, redime la tragedia humana y la hace tolerable. No, más que tolerable. Maravillosa.

  Mark Twain

  Humanity, Tragedy, Wonderful

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• For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

  Milan Kundera

  Novelists, Historic, Given

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• To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Space, Forever, Devil

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• Y para los adultos, el mundo de los libros de fantasía nos devuelve las grandes palabras de poder que, para ser domesticadas, hemos extirpado de nuestros vocabularios adultos. Estas palabras son la pornografía de la inocencia, palabras que los adultos ya no utilizamos con otros adultos, y por eso nos reímos de ellas y las relegamos al cuarto de los niños, con el miedo disfrazado de cinismo. Estas son las palabras que se forjaron en la tierra, el aire, el fuego y el agua de la existencia humana, y las palabras son: Amor. Odio. El bien. El mal. Valor. Honor. Verdad.

  Jane Yolen

  Odio, Libro, Fuego

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• Por lo que podemos discernir, el único propósito de la existencia humana es encender una luz de sentido en la oscuridad del mero ser.
  Tu visión sólo será clara cuando mires dentro de tu corazón... Quien mira fuera, sueña. Quien mira dentro, despierta.
  El sueño es la pequeña puerta oculta en el santuario más profundo e íntimo del alma, que se abre a esa noche cósmica primigenia que fue alma mucho antes de que existiera el ego consciente y será alma mucho más allá de lo que un ego consciente pueda alcanzar jamás.

  Carl Jung

  Sueño, Corazón, Noche

  Recuerdos, sueños, reflexiones cap. 11 (1962)

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• We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there)... Man as man is present... in a manner wholly different from... inanimate things.

  Jefe Medard

  Animal, Reality, Men

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• There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

  Milan Kundera

  Philosophy, Problem, Metaphysical

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• Sin embargo, sería injusto para la generalidad de nuestra especie atribuir a su debilidad intelectual y moral la divergencia gradual del budismo y el cristianismo de sus modelos primitivos. No hay que olvidar que, al glorificar la pobreza y el celibato, ambas religiones golpearon directamente la raíz no sólo de la sociedad civil, sino de la existencia humana. El golpe fue rechazado por la sabiduría o la locura de la inmensa mayoría de la humanidad, que se negó a comprar la oportunidad de salvar sus almas con la certeza de extinguir la especie.

  James G. Frazer

  Budismo, Golpe, Raíces

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