Now, maybe there's a God above
As for me all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah

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The human condition

Speaker

Leonard Cohen

Source

Hallelujah

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk music

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Singer-songwriter Musician

From

Canada

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Citation

Cohen, Leonard. "Hallelujah." Various Positions. Columbia Records, 1984.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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The King of Comedy. Directed by Martin Scorses, Embassy International Pictures, 1982.

Another quote about The human condition

Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature

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Author

David Hume
Source
A Treatise of Human Nature
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1739 1730s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.

Current Citation

Hume, David. "A Treatise of Human Nature." The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2007, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.