“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.” RealitySeemsCertainValuesFeltReligiousConditionsStageDivineLimitsPerfectionBoundsAcceptedFestivalsNoveltyConvenienceEccentricPredecessorsProfaneMelodramaIrresponsibility Author:Laura Riding
“O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.” LawHumanitySoundBornAtheismConditionsSickBoundsPositive AtheismVanityForbidden Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.” WayHumansMayMeanGamesEasyDifficultLossStepsClearTroubleConditionsApproachLogicEmbraceBoundsProfitPermanentAbandonNew Approach Author:Warren Buffett
“The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.” MeanStatesPowerfulConditionsBounds Author:Noam Chomsky
“Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.” WantTryingArtAchieveConditionsMaterialsBoundsPurityMessy Author:Chad Harbach
“Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.” PoliticalIndividualOur LivesConditionsLimitsBoundsTiesRestrictionIndividual Freedom Author:Ai Weiwei