Condition Quotes

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There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion… — William Stanley Jevons
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest,… — Matthew Arnold
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. — Gustav Holst
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into… — Hermann Hesse
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. — Wendell Berry
National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement. — Richard Rorty
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders -… — Abraham Lincoln
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished. — Julius Caesar
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself… — Erich Fromm
Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the… — Denise Levertov
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated… — Milton Friedman
The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be. — Katherine Center
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions… — William James
A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together.… — Petra Kelly
Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. — Samuel Pepys
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey -… — Eleanor Perenyi
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative… — Murray Bookchin
[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property. — Andrew Joseph Galambos
If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping. — Michio Kushi
How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can… — Nirmala Srivastava
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier. — John Dewey
The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider… — George Polya

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