Human experience Quotes

"Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer." "Anguish is the universal language." "At least embarrassment is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners." "You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while." "Man had to suffer in order to comprehend." "Each one of us is a unique event in the universe." "The observer in a laboratory observing a stone is really observing the effects of the stone upon himself." "Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling" "The arts and humanities define who we are " "He who knows the pleaser to be false, yet still takes pleasure, is more complete as a human." "You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops out" "Empathy is a crucial element of true happiness" "The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings"