Sentence examples for core of human existence from inspiring English sources

No wonder the 20th-century philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty described Montaigne as someone who put "a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence".

That would be if men themselves were robot machines, unaffected by the loss of connection to humanity's essential means of regeneration, untouched by the loss of a role at the very core of human existence.

In an essay on Montaigne, Merleau-Ponty modifies the Cartesian cogito in an aside ("To be conscious is, among other things, to be somewhere else") and goes on to describe Montaigne as putting "not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence".

But is perfectibility not at the very core of human existence?

Instead, it lies at the very core of human existence.

Medical problems are always existential problems too because suffering, anxiety, life, death, and cure involve the core of human existence.

"Curiosity is the essence of human existence: Who are we?

The entire riddle of human existence.

He asked fundamental questions of human existence.

Culture is a social-psychological-cognitive fact of human existence.

"Storytelling is a fundamental part of human existence," she said.