Essence Quotes - page 5

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. (John C. Calhoun)
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom. View quote
Georges Bataille
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism. View quote
Errico Malatesta
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. View quote
Orson Scott Card
It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Love - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another. View quote
Ruslana Korshunova
This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. View quote
Benito Mussolini
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. View quote
Anita Brookner
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. View quote
George Santayana
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist. (Julie Taymor)
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa-Who knows most, knows least. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning. View quote
Hermann Hesse
And why is it "homophobic" for Senate Republicans to look askance at sex in public bathrooms? Is the Times claiming that sodomy in public bathrooms is the essence of being gay? I thought gays just wanted to get married to one another and settle down in the suburbs so they could visit each other in the hospital. View quote
Ann Coulter
The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries. View quote
Vannevar Bush
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. View quote
Galileo Galilei
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. View quote
Alfred de Vigny
Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution. View quote
Andrei Grechko
To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance and benefit of others, by expressing, in the world of forms, truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments in themselves can have no lasting importance. (Meher Baba)
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows." View quote
James Freeman Clarke
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. View quote
George Orwell