Home / Topics / Human Beings Quotes

Human Beings Quotes

Browse 7550 quotes about Human Beings.

Human Beings Quotes

“I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the idea of aesthetics directly in the context of human existence, and then I have the whole problem in the hand, them I have not a special problem, I have a "holography" (reacting on a former suggestion of the public as a slight joke, fh) I don't know exactly what a holography is.. (1973”

Knows Humans Ideas Whole Problem Hands Human Beings Existence Special Jokes Former Radical Formulas Suggestions Aesthetics Human Existence Reacting

Author:Joseph Beuys

“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.”

Humans Care Can Do Justice Human Beings Existence Concern Essence Timeless Abstraction Human Existence Transcendent Perplexity

Book:Who is Man?

Source: Who is Man?

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.”

Ifs Believe Humans Faces Joy I Believe Human Beings Existence Creativity Despair Anxiety I Believe In Human Existence

Author:Rollo May

“Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.”

Humans Long Human Beings Existence Encounters Existential Human Existence

Book:Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

“On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.”

World Humans Hands Human Beings Existence Useless Changing The World Poetry Is Being Human Can't Change Human Existence

Author:Bei Dao