Condition Quotes - page 2

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. (Michel de Montaigne)
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. View quote
Heinrich Heine
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. View quote
André Gide
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. View quote
Erich Fromm
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. View quote
Sophocles
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. View quote
Alan Turing
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy. View quote
Alfred Hermann Fried
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. View quote
John Updike
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. View quote
William Ellery Channing
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. (Ambrose Bierce)
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
George Bernard Shaw
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night. View quote
Emil Cioran
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. View quote
Dale Carnegie
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. View quote
Octavia Butler
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, and admiration. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology. View quote
Murray Rothbard
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. View quote
Walter Lippmann
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. (Neil Kinnock)
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. View quote
Sholem Asch
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. View quote
Malcolm X
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em. View quote
Will Rogers