Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1358 authors
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A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
— Gary Shteyngart
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
— Walter Pater
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.
— Adrienne Rich
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Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around…
— Colson Whitehead
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Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with…
— Friedrich Engels
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How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction…
— Friedrich Engels
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The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
— John Lothrop Motley
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Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a…
— Romain Rolland
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I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern…
— Andrew Weil
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
— John Owen
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No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and…
— J C Ryle
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The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by…
— Grover Cleveland
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Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural…
— Kenny Smith
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The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to…
— Jules Henry
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When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
— Murray Rothbard
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