Essence Quotes - page 2

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. (Lee Strasberg)
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. View quote
Charles Darwin
Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am. View quote
Tiger Woods
To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human? View quote
David Zindell
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. View quote
Maimonides
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
History is the essence of innumerable biographies. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations. View quote
Daniel Barenboim
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. (Jean Arp)
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. View quote
Norman Mailer
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. View quote
Carl Rogers
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. View quote
Camille Paglia
If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin. View quote
Katherine Harris
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that is transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. View quote
Northrop Frye
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow. View quote
T. S. Eliot
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. (Christopher Hitchens)
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a ‘science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.... View quote
Joe Biden
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. View quote
Aristotle