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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about sadness, human imperfections, vice, absolute, pain, society, fear, death

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Quote by Billy Joel about need, human imperfections, love, people

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Quote by Billy Joel about people, feelings, humanity, contentment, music, need, human imperfections, things

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about thinking, human imperfections, man

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about waste, knowledge, happiness, nature, human imperfections, life

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about state, human imperfections, life

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about treason, nature, human imperfections, man

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, public, human imperfections

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, liberty, enemies, happiness, human imperfections, contentment

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about joy, equality, pleasure, happiness, human imperfections

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, objects, present, future, human imperfections, moment

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, human imperfections

This is what I do for a living and it's not who I am as a human being.

Quote by Don Johnson about human imperfections, being

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Quote by Don Johnson about human imperfections, being

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about love, people, perfection

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Quote by James Joyce about human imperfections, error, man

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Quote by James Joyce about philosophy, human imperfections, being

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Quote by Franz Kafka about error, human imperfections

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Quote by Franz Kafka about self-control, human imperfections

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Quote by Aldous Huxley about people, infinite, human imperfections, things