#human experience

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. ↗

— Jeff Miller

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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. ↗

— William Gibson

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Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#been #chronological #communicated #done #events

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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