condition quotes

• Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ( Socrates) [remember/human/condition/willpower]
• The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. (Hannah Arendt) [human/condition/pain/life]
• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. (Hannah Arendt) [human/condition]
• What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. (Roland Barthes) [time/condition/truth]
• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. (Georges Bataille) [being/condition/men]
• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. (Edmund Burke) [condition/men/countries/wine]
• Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. (Thomas Carlyle) [thoughts/condition/willpower]
• Variety is the condition of harmony. (Thomas Carlyle) [condition]
• Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. (Dale Carnegie) [feeling/present/condition/waste]
• The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. (Willa Cather) [condition/art/matter]
• It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all. (Raymond Chandler) [condition]
• There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [condition/experience/form/women]
• The present condition of fame is merely fashion. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [present/condition/fame/fashion]
• Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. (Joseph Conrad) [condition/art]
• Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [health/condition/wisdom]
• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. (Ferdinand Foch) [willpower/condition]
• History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. (Milton Friedman) [condition/condition]
• 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. (Andre Gide) [rest/condition]
• After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. Though feminists have been arguing for years that there is a self-defining female energy, and a female libido that is not expressed merely in response to demands by the male, and a female way of being and of experiencing the world, we are still not close to understanding what it might be. Yet every mother who has held a girl child in her arms has known that she was different from a boy child and that she would approach the reality around her in a different way. She is a female and she will die female, and though many centuries should pass, archaeologists would identify her skeleton as the remains of a female creature. (Germaine Greer) [condition/remember/being/understanding]
• The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. (Georg Hegel) [courage/truth/condition]
• The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. (Henry James) [power/trace/condition/feeling]
• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. (Thomas Jefferson) [happiness/condition/life/chance]
• No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten. (Samuel Johnson) [rest/condition/willpower/attention]
• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [food/influence/condition/men]
• In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. (Martin Luther) [condition/consolation/life]
• If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. (Harriet Martineau) [condition/society/power]
• The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. (Henry Miller) [condition/face]
• The lie is a condition of life. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [condition/life]
• The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart --not something that comes upon the earth or after death. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [condition/death]
• The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [thing/argument/condition]
• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [condition/willpower/willpower/willpower]

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