Good Human Condition Quotes

#1. Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

#2. The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

Philip Zimbardo

#3. The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.

T.A. Uner

#4. Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Tim Robbins

#5. Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

Bruce Sterling

#6. Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

Bill Gates

#7. Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.

Mike Barnicle

#8. Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe ... I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Derek Walcott

#9. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

John Stuart Mill

#10. Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

Jeremy Griffith

#11. How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#12. If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.

Francis Spufford

#13. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. - Plato

Peter Atkins

#14. We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos ... Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

Lemony Snicket

#15. Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Aristotle.

#16. The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

Paul Tillich

#17. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Colum McCann

#18. Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

Martha N. Beck

#19. perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

Jacob M. Held

#20. I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

Malcolm Gladwell

#21. If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Ralph Merkle

#22. People may make fun of me because I'm wearing something odd, but it's still good to be alive.

Soseki Natsume

#23. Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

Mark Twain

#24. But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

Bruce Sterling

#25. There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Mike Figgis

#26. A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

Emmylou Harris

#27. I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

Charles Bukowski

#28. Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

Lord Chesterfield

#29. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Jim Fergus

#30. Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.

Jim Thompson

#31. Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don't have feelings.

Martin McConnell