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Condition Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- Surely joy is the condition of life.
- Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from…
- We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's…
- When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my…
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- The highest condition of art is artlessness.
- In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form with the shovel and scraper,…
More Condition Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of… — Roland Barthes
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them… — Ezra Taft Benson
- In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — Alfred Adler