When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Henri Bergson

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames

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

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Friedrich Schiller

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Andre Gide

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
William Ellery Channing

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
William Ellery Channing

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Milan Kundera

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.
Bob Geldof

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
Ivan Pavlov

However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.
Hassan Nasrallah

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
Mary Baker Eddy

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Jack Levine

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
James Monroe

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
Jose Saramago