Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.
I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box. . . but I still play with it!
The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum.
Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.
Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.