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Quotes About Condition

The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate, bond, cooperate, compete, and from all these the deep warm pleasure of belonging to your own special group.
~ Edward O. Wilson
the biological mind is the essence and the very meaning of the human condition.
~ Edward O. Wilson
With all its quirks, irrationality, and risky productions, and all its conflict and inefficiency, the biological mind is the essence and the very meaning of the human condition.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Stress is such a force, and tension is such a condition; these both severely destroy health and place physically under strain; such invisible powers affect like a silent killer of a happy life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
It may be best not to advertise it, but keeping yourself healthy and in your right range of arousal is the first condition for helping others.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
~ Elbert Hubbard
This isn't the Palestinian flag. Palestine isn't a country for it to have a flag. Palestine is a condition. Every Arab is a Palestinian. Every poor man who carries a gun is a Palestinian. Palestine is the condition of us all.
~ Elias Khoury
There was no way to go through life, in Turkish or any other language, making only factual statements about direct observations. You were forced to use -mi?, just by the human condition—just by existing in relation to other people.
~ Elif Batuman
Properly speaking, a proviso is a clause that introduces a condition by the word provided.
~ Antonin Scalia
Given a rule of law that [those] conditions generically described as A produce a certain legal liability or other consequence X, does the specific fact or group of facts n fall within the genus A?
~ Antonin Scalia
Every private organization desires to have dutiful persons as employees, but merely at its employer's terms and condition and perhaps never as what they deserve in terms of position, designation & remuneration.
~ Anuj Somany
Marriage is a ticket to freedom often to enjoy herself for woman, but to man it is a hit-wicket condition.
~ Anuj Somany
There are good quality people but definitely not in good quantity and ,unfortunately, not often in good financial condition.
~ Anuj Somany
There must be a solid and valid reason as why women in ancient times were not given freedom and kept in veiled condition.
~ Anuj Somany
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
~ Aristotle
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
~ Arnold Beichman
I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to.
~ Kevin Young
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
~ Herbert A. Simon
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
~ Hannah Arendt
I was always in good shape.
~ Kyle Lowry
I'm in good shape.
~ Gary Lineker
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and beast live; you must also have and acquire the will to ignorance. You need to grasp that without this kind of ignorance life itself would be impossible, that it is a condition under which alone the living thing can preserve itself and prosper: a great, firm dome of ignorance must encompass you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche