The Predatory Nature Of Human Existence Quotes

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid. ~ Aberjhani

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' ~ Robert Fulghum

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

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ~ David Brainerd

Happiness is the primary goal of human existence. ~ Joey Lawsin

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don't want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration. ~ Allie Burke

[ ... ] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [ ... ]. ~ Noam Chomsky

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics. ~ Enid Lyons

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference ... between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope. ~ William James

Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature. ~ Erich Fromm

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power. ~ John Stuart Mill

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive. ~ Alex Shoumatoff

There is only One Human race; Humankind. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it. ~ Charles Baudelaire

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object. ~ Albert Camus

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence. ~ Desmond Tutu

Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky. ~ Michael Leunig

An individual human existence should be like a river ~ Bertrand Russell

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician. ~ James J. Hill

And yet our existence is so organized that every personal enjoyment is purchased at the price of human suffering contrary to human nature. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. ~ Dalai Lama

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature. ~ Harrison Ford

When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence. ~ Sharon Salzberg

No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life. ~ Erik Naggum

Human ideologies are based on human believe and acceptance of one ideology by all human is not possible as long as each human could find answers about his existence by his own mind. ~ Zaman Ali

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us. ~ Johann Baptist Metz

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. ~ Jean Toomer

Chaos owes its existence to darkness.
Light owes its existence to energy.
Reality owes its existence to time.
Wind owes its existence to nature.
Force owes its existence to acceleration.
Darkness owes its existence to light.
Sound owes its existence to movement.

Silence owes its existence to stillness.
Matter owes its existence to space.
Heat owes its existence to motion.
Harmony owes its existence to confusion.
Opportunity owes its existence to chance.
Destiny owes its existence to action.
Consciousness owes its existence to eternity.

Knowledge owes its existence to truth.
Perception owes its existence to understanding.
Curiosity owes its existence to observation.
Intelligence owes its existence to wisdom.
Insight owes its existence to discernment.
Judgement owes its existence to awareness.
Speculation owes its existence to certainty. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. ~ Andrew Schneider

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature. ~ Paula Stokes

Further, this human responsibility is in the first instance 'not...a task but a gift,...not law but grace'. It expresses itself in 'believing, responsive love' (p.98). So then, 'one who has understood the nature of responsibility has understood the nature of man. Responsibility is not an attribute, it is the "substance" of human existence. It contains everything..., [it is] that which distinguishes man from all other creatures....' (p.50). Therefore 'if responsibility be eliminated, the whole meaning of human existence disappears' (p.258). ~ John R.W. Stott

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~ Erich Fromm

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end. ~ Orson Welles

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece. ~ Alan W. Watts

One way or another, all humans are superstitious. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. ~ Milan Kundera

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times. ~ Paddy Considine

I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as the character of human existence and what makes for a good human life. ~ George Pattison

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? ~ Milan Kundera

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall. ~ Adolf Hitler

I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence. ~ Dalai Lama

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. ~ Arthur Miller

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. ~ Herbert Marcuse

Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell ... Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners. ~ Elie Wiesel

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed ~ Abraham Lincoln

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings. ~ Edward Abbey

Human nature is not of itself vicious. ~ Thomas Paine

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable. ~ George Orwell

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. ~ Ernest Holmes

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side. ~ Elizabeth Goudge

One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature. ~ Zaman Ali

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence. ~ Dennis Kucinich

What we call human nature, is actually human habit. ~ Jewel

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears. ~ Victor Hugo

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature. ~ David Mitchell

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there. ~ Thucydides

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature. ~ Philip Roth

New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill. ~ Anderson Cooper

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence. ~ Alexander Hamilton

Human existence and action are characterized by their capacity for meaning.28 No form of human life can be defined "without reference to meaning. It makes sense [Sinn] to understand meaning [Sinn] as the fundamental category of
human existence."29 ~ Udo Schnelle

In existence, no human being is perfect. Every person has his own unique nature and individual field of expertise. Even those, whom we know as gods were unaware of the knowledge of science all their life. So, instead of paying attention to your shortcomings, concentrate on your talents and harness your potential. ~ Deep Trivedi

Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick. ~ Desmond Tutu

To sin means to miss the mark, as an archer who misses the target, so to sin means to miss the point of human existence. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature. ~ Margot Asquith

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature. ~ Martin Chemnitz

The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence. ~ Pope Leo XIII

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature. ~ Ellen Glasgow

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority ~ Killer Mike

Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area. ~ Xaviera Hollander

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. ~ Alfred Adler

Ultimately, I see the Goddess as incorporating the full spectrum of existence, not just what we call 'the feminine.' The latter is actually a construct of a culture that divides existence into compartments, and in particular into the dualities with which we are so familiar: light/dark, female/male, mind/body, earth/spirit and so on.

The true nature of existence, including true human nature, I believe, is not so split. Acting and living from the integration of all these components is what I call spirituality. Thus, the Goddess represents a unity and wholeness which is the birthright and potential of every human being. All of us, all of existence, are the Divine. In order to complete this whole by bringing back that which has been denied, I name the Divine the Goddess. ~ Hallie Iglehart Auste

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. ~ B.R. Ambedkar

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. ~ Clancy Brown

Human now exactly look like Aliens on the Earth with those Corona Space Suit, save Nature ~ P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Among human beings, only the existence of those we love is fully recognized. Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love. ~ Simone Weil

Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. ~ Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title "human". ~ Abhijit Naskar

My task: the dehumanization of Nature, and then the naturalization of humanity, after it has attained the pure concept of 'Nature'. Human beings and philosophers have in the past projected the human into nature - let us dehumanize nature. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source
next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself. ~ Friedrich Engels

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. ~ Marianne Williamson

Human nature is disposed to do good. ~ Mencius

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature. ~ Jack Nicholson

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence. ~ John Eccles

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved. ~ Theodore Dalrymple

Nature never remembers, that's why she's beautiful. ~ Alberto Caeiro

Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe. ~ Kahlil Gibran

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. ~ Arundhati Roy

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended ... ~ Freya Stark

To a poet, his works aren't just a reflection of life itself, but an entire life in the boundless invisible. Isn't the heavenly oasis of all human emotions - the soul - invisible? I reaped: We cannot see the wind, but we can feel it, we cannot see the warmth of the sun, but we can also feel it. This bond between nature and humans is the best proof of the Creator's existence. ~ Walter William Safar

To discover the 'traces of God' in nature does not indeed save us, but it does mane us wise, as tradition says; for we discover in the memory of nature a wisdom of existence and life which mirrors the wisdom of God, and for human civilization it is wise to co-operate with nature and to become integrated in it, instead of exploiting and hence destroying it in the interests of human domination. ~ Jurgen Moltmann

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

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general. ~ Abraham Maslow

Nature has a myriad of weapons to combat human arrogance. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through. ~ E.L. Doctorow

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility. ~ Ian Barbour