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Human Condition Quotes

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Alexander Hamilton
Character, Human Condition
Alexander Hamilton (1797). “Observations on certain documents in "The history of the United States for the year 1796,"”, p.12

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Human Condition, Humans

It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

Charles de Foucauld
Cures, Human Condition, Teach

Scoundrels are always sociable.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Scoundrels, Human Condition, Sociable

Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition

Wally Olins
Profound, Branding, Human Condition
"Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits". Book by Debbie Millman, www.businessinsider.com. 2013.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual, Lost, Human Condition
Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Jon Krakauer
Facts, Human Condition, Deranged
Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

To think is to say 'no.'

Emile Chartier
Thinking, Nihilism, Human Condition
"The Citizen against the Powers". Book by Emile Chartier, 1926.

Habits form a second nature.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Habit, Form, Human Condition
Philosophie Zoologique pt. 2, ch. 7 (1809)

Hope is what makes the human condition liveable

Arthur Kleinman
Human Condition, Humans, Conditions
Arthur Kleinman (2007). “What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger”, p.45, Oxford University Press

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Mark Twain
Race, Coward, Human Condition
Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.130, Univ of California Press

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Katherine Center
Beauty, Imperfection, Human Condition
Katherine Center (2009). “Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel”, p.226, Ballantine Books

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

Joni Mitchell
Motivational, Gone, Human Condition
Song: Big Yellow Taxi

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Albert Ellis
Thinking, Unfair, Human Condition

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Mercedes McCambridge
Insanity, Disease, Human Condition
Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

Francois Truffaut
Forgiving, Human Condition, Bores

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

Milan Kundera
Kitsch, Matter, Human Condition

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Age, Judgment, Human Condition

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

Baltasar Gracian
Needs, Human Condition, Ability
Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Thom Mayne
Reality, Modern, Human Condition

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

Paul Valery
Order, Disorder, Human Condition

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

Niels Diffrient
Design, Human Condition, Humans

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Form, Human Condition
Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.669

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

Mary Travers
Human Condition, Concern, Folks

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

Ludwig von Mises
Men, Littles, Human Condition

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