315 Quotes About Human-condition

People of religious distinction maintain that human beings exclusively possess souls, on the strength of which they may gain admittance to heaven.Only human beings lie, devise pogroms, murder for recreation, steal, libel, slander and perform crossword puzzles. This says nothing new about the condition of being human, but it does help to illuminate the special contributions of the soul.

She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says.'Which part?,' I ask.'Being human.

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.

They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing to go is parallel parking.

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind chance. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

The more I know, the more I realize that I don't know much at all...

Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.

The globalization and competitiveness of the world economy will ultimately result in the absolute division of human beings into two classes, and the more powerful of these classes will enslave the other until the human condition either evolves or comes to an end.