“Existence is a temporal condition.”

“The essential condition for life is the existence of sharp energy gradients.”

“Hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist.”

“The concept of “human existence” suggests an abstract human condition; “class existence” indicts bad conditions. The former suggests a nonexistent egalitarianism, as if master and slave, owner and worker, bomber and bombed all participate in the same universal abstraction. … The human condition for the rich is the inhuman one for the impoverished.”

“Principle II : The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions : they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.”

“The fact is that no contradictory aspect can exist in isolation. Without its opposite aspect, each loses the condition for its existence”

“From experience. That something is irrational is no argument against its existence, but rather a condition for it.”

“In Homer, existence
is flawed; transcendence, conditional;
' the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual”

“This attraction to exploration, to the unknown, to great journeys, great conquests, has always existed in the human spirit, even in very crude conditions, .... very backward conditions.”

“By asserting the objectivity of the physical world, natuaralism identifies the existence and the conditions of existence of the physical world with existence and the conditions of existence in general. It forgets that the world of the physicist necessarily refers back, through its intrinsic meaning, through the subjective world which one tries to exclude from reality as being pure appearance, conditioned by the empirical nature of man, which is incapable of reaching directly to a world of things in themselves. But while the world of the physicist claims to go beyond naive experience, his world really exists only in relation to naive experience.”