Essential Quotes

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy. View quote
George Soros
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. View quote
Luis Barragán
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. View quote
Edwin H. Land
The essential ingredient of politics is timing. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. (Patañjali)
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. View quote
John Updike
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. View quote
Thornton Wilder
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. View quote
Edmund Burke
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. View quote
Albert Camus
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. View quote
Northrop Frye
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. (Denis Diderot)
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. View quote
Milton Friedman
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied. View quote
Manuel Puig
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. View quote
Arthur Henderson