Conditions Quotes - Page 30

• It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Cures, Human Condition, Teach

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• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  Jack Levine

  Men, Concerned

  Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”

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• Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Long, Waiting, Excuse

  Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Atmosphere, Foundation

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.

  Lynda Resnick

  Dark, Epilepsy, People

  "Help Us Bring Epilepsy Out of the Shadows" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone.

  C.P. Snow

  Light, Creative, Black

  "The Two Cultures".

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• Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Change, Real, Usa

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Five Thousand Year Leap”, Verity Publishing

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• I can’t see, unless the weather changes, the conditions changing dramatically.

  Peter Alliss

  Weather, I Can

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• We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

  John T. Flynn

  Long, Today, Way

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• Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

  Herman Kahn

  Technology, Issues, Decision

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• The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Lying, Views, Stories

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• Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Long, Passed Away, Contracts

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.

  Abraham Flexner

  Sex, America, Race

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• There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Real, Fall, Men

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• Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

  Susan Griffin

  Roles, Modern Woman, Virtue

  Susan Griffin (2002). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, p.17, Broadway Books

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• Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Abuse, Age, Doe

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• Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Aquariums, Heaven

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• I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Desperate, Enough

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• As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Bears, Neurology

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

  Clayton Christensen

  Average, Years, Physicians

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• The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Lying, Goal, Rejection

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• NEEMO missions are a challenging and exciting aspect of astronaut training. The research we conduct during those missions allows us to test new technologies and exploration concepts in conditions similar to the ones we'll experience in space. They are a great opportunity to help me expand my knowledge and develop new tools for future space exploration.

  Jeremy Hansen

  Technology, Opportunity, Space

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• Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not
  the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Events, Caprice, Flux

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Greek, Training, May

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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