Human Existence

Famous quotes containing the words human existence, human and/or existence:

“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and “historical tasks” ... is an actual or potential assassin.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)