Essence Quotes

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. (Aristotle)
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. View quote
H. G. Wells
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Desire is the very essence of man. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. View quote
James Madison
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. View quote
Henry Taylor
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. View quote
Brian Kernighan
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. View quote
Mike Myers
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. (George Boole)
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. View quote
Georg Büchner
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. View quote
Nnamdi Azikiwe
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. View quote
George S. Patton
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. View quote
Isaac Asimov
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. (Anthony Robbins)
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. View quote
Georg Cantor
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. View quote
Michael E. Porter
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. View quote
Michael E. Porter
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. View quote
David Storey