Quotes on Conditions

One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.

I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The human condition: lost in thought.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.