Quotessence
Home / Topics / The Human Condition Quotes

The Human Condition Quotes

Browse 20 quotes about The Human Condition.

The Human Condition Quotes

“Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.”

Inspirational QuotesChangeWisdom QuotesHypocrisyBeing RealHypocriteChange YourselfGuidance QuotesReal TalkGenuinenessBecoming BetterBe RealBe BetterThe Human ConditionReal Quotes
Author:C. JoyBell C.
Create image

“The tragic sense of life has its origin in our determination to carry off two incompatible, but equally serious, ambitions: to search for meaning and to face reality. An intense, unceasing demand for meaning - the longing for life to make benevolent, beautiful sense - is coupled with the dawning, appalling fact that it does not, in the end, make sense in that way. Tragedy is the name for horror seen against the backdrop of love. This is an area in which civilization does not reduce our suffering - does not make life more pleasing or comfortable. What is the achievement of tragedy? It is to present the deepest sorrows of the human condition: what we love is terribly vulnerable; each life is a brief, scarring moment in the wastes of eternity; our transient existence will be marked by depression, confusion, and fear ... The ambition of tragedy is to hold such intelligent fears in a ceremonial act endowed with splendour and grace. The ceremony does not overcome our fears. But, unlike horror, it does not seek to stoke anxiety. The tragic view is, really, a determination to hold on to nobility, love and beauty - even while knowing the worst about ourselves.”

PhilosophyHumanityExistenceSadnessComfortCivilizationTragedyMeaningMeaning Of LifeThe Human Condition
Book:In Search of Civilization
Create image

“The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts”

WisdomSuccessInspirational QuotesMotivational QuotesHealingCompassionPossibilityAchievementMindfulnessEmpathyHumanHealEmotional IntelligenceRasheed Ogunlaru QuotesRasheed OgunlaruThe Human ConditionQuotes On SuccessThe Power Of The MindThe Power Of LoveThe Power Of The HeartThe Power Of Self Belief
Author:Rasheed Ogunlaru
Create image

“[A]s an anthropologist, my job is not to love or hate, like or dislike, admire or disdain others. My purpose is primarily to understand not only how things are, but how/why they became the way they are…if I could sum up the most valuable thing I have learned from anthropology, it is this: the problems we have in this world are not Black, Muslim, Russian, Chinese, white, and so on. Our problems are simply human problems. They happen because we are born or thrown into certain contexts, places, circumstances, and structures that are often much bigger than ourselves, and we then try to make sense, resist, fight, accept, or give in to our circumstances in various ways. All our human successes and failures highly depend on our will, awareness, and the resources available to us to make individual or communal changes. [From “The Trump Age: Critical Questions” published on CounterPunch on June 23, 2023]”

HumanityCulturePoliticsPowerAwarenessHuman NatureAnthropologyUnderstanding OthersThe Human Condition
Author:Louis Yako
Create image

“At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal power in the human soul: one very reasonably tells a man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of escaping it; the other, still more reasonably, says that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general course of events, and it is therefore better to disregard what is painful till it comes, and to think about what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally listens to the first voice, but in society to the second.”

SocietyHuman NatureDangerClimate ChangeThe Human Condition
Book:War and Peace
Create image

“Left to their own devices, humans will inevitably resort to baser impulses, to self-eradicating violence. Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be driven to destroy…Left to their own devices, humans will inevitably care for another at great detriment to themselves. Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be compelled to save it. It is not one side or the other. Both are true. Flip the coin and see where it lands.”

HumanityThe Human ConditionThe Human Experience
Book:The Atlas Complex
Create image

“There is nothing you lack and all you will find; we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by.”

HeartPeaceAbilityAcceptanceGratitudeMindfulnessAbundanceQuotes About LifeLive Your LifeSelf DevelopmentGiftsTalentsRasheed Ogunlaru QuotesRasheed OgunlaruConciousnessThe MindMinuteThe HeartThe Human ConditionOpen Your EyesOpen Your MindConcious LivingDon T Let Life Pass You ByQuotes On Self EsteemRasheed Ogunlaru Lyrics
Author:Rasheed Ogunlaru
Create image

“Sorrow in the Heart of an Apple” I tidied my old sorrow, wrapped it gently in scented cloth, and buried it beneath the apple tree in our village orchard. Seasons rolled by... And I believed it was finished, forgotten, even the burial site lost to memory. Then came harvest. I plucked a red apple— shiny, luscious, radiant with promise. But with the first bite, I tasted it. That same sorrow, aged but unmistakable. It had not only survived— it had multiplied. Now here I am, face to face again, finding it in the heart of every apple.”

LifeLife LessonsLossGriefMemoryTraumaForgettingArabic PoetryArabic LiteratureThe Human Condition
Book:سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
Create image

“It is only through the possession of an ever-illuminating library that we can come to recognize and understand the horror and wonder of the human family's Odyssey and its quest for wholeness, freedom, salvation, love, and dominion over fire, flood, suffering, and every disease and death—from the river Styx to space. Without reading as an essential resource for survival in our everyday experience, the individual . . . swings in the orchard of time, an empty-headed scarecrow—gleeful in his wilderness.”

ReadingBooksThe Human Condition
Book:Relocations of the Spirit: Collected Essays
Create image