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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
Darkness
Light
Sole
Sole Purpose
Kindle
Purpose
Mere
Discern
Existence
Human
Being
As Far As
Human Existence
Far
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B. R. Ambedkar
Mind
Aim
Ultimate
Cultivation
Existence
Human
Human Existence
Should
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Tom Wolfe
Life
Myself
Loneliness
Rare
Men
My Life
Inevitable
Few
Conviction
Other
Solitary
Rests
Fact
Existence
Curious
Human
Being
Central
Human Existence
Far
Whole
Belief
Now
Phenomenon
Peculiar
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
Richard Dawkins
Life
Eyes
Natural
Physics
Simple
Build
Chemistry
Trees
Extraordinary
Constantly
Fact
Selection
Take
Facts
Open
Powerful
How
Redwood
Existence
Up
Very
Human
Just
Process
Which
Human Existence
Them
Natural Selection
Wide
Humans
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake
Love
Hate
Energy
Progression
Attraction
Without
Existence
Love And Hate
Human
Human Existence
Repulsion
Reason
Necessary
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Erik Erikson
Feeling
Sense
Alive
Identity
Without
Existence
Jungle
Human
Being
Human Existence
Social
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Noam Chomsky
Freedom
Democracy
Survival
Valued
Possibly
More
Terminal
Ideals
Existence
Than
Essential
May
Human
Just
Human Existence
Phase
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
James Buchan
Today
Water
Vital
Obscure
Almost
Call
Existence
Human
Commodity
Just
Oil
Human Existence
Century
Petroleum
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
Gene Cernan
Corner
Those
Out
Find
Over
Come
Know
Around
Answers
Existence
Questions
Curiosity
Any
Essence
Going
Human
Where
Want
Human Existence
Who
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
Joan D. Vinge
Life
You
Kind
Vital
Developed
Studying
Anthropology
Existence
Listed
Human
Which
Holistic
Human Existence
Aspects
View
Necessary
From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.
Timothy Leary
Behavior
First
Changes
Relating
Software
Paper
Systematically
Has-Been
Obsession
How
Been
Brain
Existence
Human
Experiences
Human Existence
Published
Inner
External
Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.
Alan Lowenthal
Change
Every
Threatens
Almost
Climate
Climate Change
Existence
Human
Human Existence
Aspect
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
Arthur Keith
Work
Nature
Must
See
Mental
Give
Adopt
Rational
Take
Existence
Account
Modern
Human
Explain
Explanation
Human Existence
Communities
Theory
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim
Music
Art
Borders
Crosses
Sounds
Existence
Human
Human Existence
Depth
Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.
Debra Granik
Medicine
Humour
Existence
End-All
Human
Human Existence
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Denis Waitley
Success
Time
Energy
Draw
Put
Most
Knows
How
Existence
Precious
Person
Human
Human Existence
Successful
Successful Person
Element
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.
Douglas Kennedy
Life
Key
Admitting
Component
Horrific
Potential
Both
Fact
Like
Existence
Wondrous
Human
Human Existence
Things
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
Jim Harrison
Gender
Significant
See
Fact
Most
Existence
Human
Human Existence
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
John Desmond Bernal
Time
Peace
Humanity
Sex
Side
Sight
Hunger
Plenty
Dream
Longer
Primitive
Looks
Within
Permanent
Permanent Peace
Still
Arrival
Were
Existence
Dominate
Human
Human Existence
Awaits
Satisfaction
Utopian
Present
Present Time
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
Joseph McCabe
Rights
Women
Three
Thirty
Find
Within
Am
Feminist
Years
Years Ago
Existence
Left
Began
Human
Human Existence
Sane
Monastery
Two
Defending
It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.
Josh Holloway
Life
History
Amazing
Try
Out
Comply
Someone
Throughout
How
Been
Existence
Get
Get A Life
Human
Story
Human Existence
Human History
Fast
Oldest
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
Michael Mandelbaum
Natural
Seen
Increasingly
Once
Considered
Kind
Part
Course
Inequality
Came
Existence
Normal
Any
Human
Human Existence
Century
Illegitimate
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera
Time
Great
Man
Light
Old
Will
Astonish
Dim
Never
Thus
However
Perpetually
Discoveries
Existence
Cease
May
Human
Forgotten
Being
Human Existence
Novelists
Novels
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
Milan Kundera
Work
Fragment
Unknown
Only
Reveals
Existence
Human
Being
Literary
Literary Work
Human Existence
Reason
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan Kundera
Situation
Given
He
His
Existence
Question
Historic
Laboratory
Human
Which
Human Existence
Novelist
Basic
Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.
Monica Johnson
God
Random
Nothing
Luck
Since
Existence
Human
Human Existence
Really
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