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Quote Left Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books. Quote Right
Quote Left In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which affect all of mankind. But local solutions, inevitably conditioned by local interests, are required for the problems peculiar to each human settlement. Quote Right
Quote Left Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. Quote Right
Quote Left Man is a peculiar creature. He spends a fortune making his home insect-proof and air-conditioned, and then eats in the yard. Quote Right
Quote Left All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. In the societies of the Western world compassionate intelligence is encouraged in girls - in boys it is tabu. The tabu on tenderness in which boys are conditioned, the emphasis on 'manliness,' 'machoism,' plays havoc with the male's capacity for compassionate intelligence. Tenderness is considered to be feminine, and that is sufficient to remove it from the repertoire of masculine behavior. Indeed, things have reached such a pass in the Western world that many men seem to have lost all understanding of its meaning. The masculine world would substitute for it the idea of 'justice.' The difficulty with that is that there is not much compassion in their justice, and justice without compassion is not justice at all. Quote Right
Quote Left You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices. Quote Right
Quote Left Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. Quote Right
Quote Left All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no facts at this table. Quote Right
Quote Left It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence. Quote Right
Quote Left A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. Quote Right
Quote Left In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers. Quote Right
Quote Left Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. Quote Right
Quote Left For what we regard as reality is conditioned by the theory to which we subscribe Quote Right
Quote Left The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path. Quote Right
Quote Left If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. Quote Right
Quote Left People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we beco... Quote Right
Quote Left Matthew 5:4: Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. (NIV)

Blessed and enviably happy [with a happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted! [Isa. 61:2.](AMP)

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. (KJV)

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Quote Left Matthew 5:8: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. (NIV)

Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous--possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God! [Ps. 24:3, 4.](AMP)

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. (KJV)

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Quote Left Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political veiwpoint—Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fa... Quote Right
Quote Left I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out. Quote Right
Quote Left Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them. Quote Right
Quote Left Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Conditioned

Quote Left ON PRÉSENCE & AWAKENING “Presence is ungraspable, fleeting. It subsides as soon as it arises. When we wake up, we wake up to Presence. It is unstoppable, our eternal Truth. It matters not what we look like, do or wear - these are conditioned illusions of the mind. In the final analysis we are all presentations of Presence.” Quote Right
Quote Left Talk no more of Freedom or rights when you are conditioned by government to wear garbs of obstruction for air and compelled into isolation for fear of scam derived from the imbalance of temperature Quote Right
Quote Left Having lived with a cat for the past six years--I am thoroughly convinced that both Pavlov and his dog were conditioned by Pavlov's Cat.... Quote Right
Quote Left We shouldn't be conditioned to love based on conditions Quote Right

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