Conditioned Quotes

224 quotes by 187 authors

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society. — William Manchester
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why… — Christopher Isherwood
Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because weâ€™re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We donâ€™t know… — Chuck Klosterman
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not… — Lawrence Durrell
A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other… — Albert Einstein
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words,… — Viktor E. Frankl
Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill. — Unknown Author
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody… — Rajneesh
Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening. — John Taylor Gatto
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear… — Barry Long
Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All these misidentifications have to be… — Nirmala Srivastava
Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of… — Dalai Lama
If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do… — Paul Rand
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a… — Peter Doig
Can you actually go through life without labeling what happens to you as good or bad? Sure you can. You have to train yourself to… — Srikumar Rao
In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually… — David Novak

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