Quotes About The Human Experience

#1. Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.

David Lynch

#2. As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Dalai Lama

#3. Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the slightest provocation we will put distance between ourselves and those we cannot or do not want to understand

Susan Nathan

#4. Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.

Elena Ferrante

#5. Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

James Rowland Angell

#6. Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

George Eliot

#7. It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

Hillary Clinton

#8. Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'. In this sense Heidegger is not simply 'mistaken' - he just asks us, as philosophers mostly do, to think more carefully about what we're saying.

George Pattison

#9. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Paul Theroux

#10. There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

#11. The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Farnham

#12. It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Lyman Abbott

#13. Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Baruch Spinoza

#14. When you find yourself thinking far from others ... .. When you are faced with the differences between you and the rest ... .. Know you found your uniqueness.

Sameh Elsayed

#15. When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.

Kofi Annan

#17. Genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation of its own works.

Marcel Proust

#18. Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

Larry Moss

#19. Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

Branch Rickey

#20. From the tiniest experience of your daily life to your grand perception of the universe, in various situations, the human brain tends to create its own myth and stories.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

George Carlin

#22. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

Nathaniel Branden

#23. The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of disease, but with medical intervention probably live almost as long, suffering from suboptimum health all the way through. It's our choice.

Steve Solomon

#24. The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

Francis Spufford

#25. The passion for finding the system in experience, replacing surprise with order, is a persistent part of human nature ... Science came to mean the elimination of surprise. It outlawed miracles, because miracles are above all unexpected.

George Gilder

#26. On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

Candice Patton

#27. Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

Sue Monk Kidd

#28. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Socrates

#29. The atheist ... destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

Baron D'Holbach

#30. One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

Herbie Hancock

#31. Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

Ilka Chase

#32. If I were capable of human emotions, tears of joy would have been streaming down my face. You know that feeling you experience upon witnessing the birth of your first child? It was like that, only a thousand times better, because free burritos were involved.

Nathan Rabin

#33. I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

Louis Agassiz

#34. I call TVs 'erasers' because they have not only wiped away the entire human experience to date, but whatever it was they were wetting their pants about only fifteen minutes earlier.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

#36. A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virute is concerned, Experience is the mother of illusion.

C.S. Lewis

#37. Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Tony Robbins

#38. The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Wayne Dyer

#39. The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

William Gibson

#40. I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

Judy Chicago

#41. Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.

Rene Descartes

#42. We are spirit in human form playing a game called earth life. Enjoy the experience!

S.A.M.

#43. I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

Patricia McCormick

#44. When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.

Sameh Elsayed

#45. Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

Ralph Ellison

#46. When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.

Keith Raniere

#47. Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Abhijit Naskar

#48. Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

George Eliot

#49. We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#50. In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience.

~Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

#51. The artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

Peter Block

#52. The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.

Steve Maraboli

#53. All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

William Ralph Inge

#54. Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

Anthony Daniels

#55. My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

Wynonna Judd

#56. No matter how slick the technology or charming the person on screen, I don't think we'll ever be able to replicate the full extent of the human learning experience online.

Clara Parkes

#57. When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory of feelings and musings from which they can choose and infuse into their words and characters.

David Perry

#58. The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#59. No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: ... there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet. JG Ballard, 2004

J.G. Ballard

#60. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#61. When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.

Francis Collins

#62. The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to. The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along.

Neale Donald Walsch

#63. When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

Sarah Kay

#64. Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

David McCullough

#65. As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

Jenna Morasca

#66. We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don't deny it, don't be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there.

Harold S. Kushner

#67. Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve.

Sameh Elsayed

#68. There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

John Cameron Mitchell

#69. I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

Steve Gleason

#70. It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

John Harsanyi

#71. We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Jacob Needleman

#72. To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.

Alexander Hamilton

#73. Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.

Joseph Story

#74. The universe is a life giving force that is part of us. It flows in harmony through us guiding our every step. It maintain the harmony and flow of life. It gives us the passion and the knowledge we need to live and be inspired by. Yet in return, it is inspired by the human spirit

Sameh Elsayed

#75. Life is, after all, a sensual experience. Our senses have the power to truly transport us but also to ground us. Make us human.

Kathleen Tessaro

#76. As human beings we have a choice: we can resist the change and crumble or we can accept the change, experience the feelings they provoke and then consciously respond with the true light of our power. 3.

Robin S. Sharma

#77. There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.

Ren Ng

#78. Begin by asking yourself, What message is the universe giving me? What can I learn from this experience, and how can I make it useful to my fellow human beings?

Deepak Chopra

#79. To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..

Agatha Christie

#80. Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.

Ernst Cassirer

#81. Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition ... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know ...

Alton Tobey

#82. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

#83. The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

Caroline Myss

#84. That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

Howard Nemerov

#85. There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

Isaac Barrow

#86. I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God's Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

John Piper

#87. The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

Helen M. Luke

#88. Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#89. If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

#90. It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old.

Alexander Hamilton

#91. Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Greg Lake

#92. It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

Elon Musk

#93. As Christian mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." He was right. If we recognize the soul lesson, we can grow beyond suffering, and there is no stress in this state of understanding.

Brian L. Weiss

#94. The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

Andrew Cohen

#95. All great changes in life were inspired either by a book or by a personal point of view. The greatest were inspired by a woman.

Sameh Elsayed

#96. All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#97. The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.

Michael Spencer

#98. The darkness inside you allows for a more human experience. Giving you the very thing you lacked before: an insider's knowledge of the two faces of man - the constant struggle between darkness and light.

Alyson Noel

#99. The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

Tim O'Brien

#100. Do women in love feel as men do? Do men love as women love? His virgin bride shared her pipe-frame bed all smiles and laughter. When they were intimate to the last degree on that bed, did Lou's experience join his, did his experience match hers, during this moment and that moment?

Annie Dillard