| "But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition." »John Owen |
| "Hope is necessary in every condition." »Samuel Johnson |
| "That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing." »Pliny the Younger |
| "The first condition of immortality is death." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire |
| "To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career." »George Santayana |
| "Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." »Robert Anson Heinlein |
| "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind." »Sir Richard Francis Burton |
| "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant |
| "Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone." »Octavio Paz |
| "History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom." »Milton Friedman |
| "The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." »John Philpot Curran |
| "It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant |
| "Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown |
| "The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." »Bishop Creighton |
| "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." »Malcolm X |
| "He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool." »Albert Camus |
| "Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." »French Proverb |
| "Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing." »Aristotle |
| "In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress." »Charles W. Eliot |
| "It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist." »Loren D. Estleman |
| "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." »Dr. Dale E. Turner |
| "The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach." »Sophocles |
| "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." »Erich Fromm |
| "It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude." »Friedrich August von Hayek |
| "The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life." »Thomas Mann |
| "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." »Benjamin Cardozo |
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