Condition Quotes

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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without… — Samuel Johnson
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious… — Samuel Johnson
When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so… — Ravi Zacharias
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. — Mignon McLaughlin
The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in… — Sri Aurobindo
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying… — Seneca the Younger
Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament,… — Frank Chodorov
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place… — Irving Kristol
Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind.… — Walter Russell
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God… — Louis Agassiz
The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the… — Claude Bernard
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the… — James Clerk Maxwell
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! — John Owen
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without… — William Kingdon Clifford
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see… — Muhammad Yunus
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will… — Aristotle
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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