Conditions Quotes

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

Variation under Domestication,' there are two factors: namely, the nature of the organism, and the nature of the conditions.

How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one organic being to another being, been perfected?

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

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement - improvement in conditions - is the order of things in a society of equals.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.