Jason Silva Quotes

To be human is to be in a story.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.

Man is something to be surpassed.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.