Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king

Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

I’ve always been interested in an architecture of resistance – architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you’re offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: ‘Do I want to be a part of this?

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

My mum was slightly stressed because she didn’t want it to make my condition worse and it is a big risk factor with the stress. Exercise kind of exacerbated the condition but as long as they knew it wasn’t going to make me worse they were happy.

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the putdownable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave

Writing is a way to explore the human condition

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character – meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

Be open to perceiving a physical condition as a chance to get closer to God.

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

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

That’s too bad. I like the golf course. We’re seeing it under some difficult conditions because of the greens, (but) I have great memories here.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

Until we can re-establish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.

Equality of conditions is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived.

I won’t say that I’m an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know… but I’m not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future – journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists – tend not to be powerful.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing

If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

The country doesn’t deserve anything less than success from us. Let us aim for success

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.