Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.
I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.
For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
Fight only after creating conditions for victory.
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.
I eventually shifted to video. Video opened up new conditions, or freed me from old conditions.
Happiness is free, there are no conditions.
Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.
We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007,. . . But this finding seems to be telling us that conditions on the dark side of the rings are almost as good right now for seeing spokes.
Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience.