Quotes about essence
essence civilization giving
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. Mahatma Gandhi
essence gone republic
When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form John Adams
essence government political
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
essence awful world
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
essence choices arbitrary
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination. Louise Bourgeois
essence leaders methods point power remove
The essence of the methods (used by the Kremlin) is to remove from power those leaders that are too independent from its point of view.
essence game
the essence of the game has been shot-making. John Stevens
essence learning spark teaching
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. Marva Collins
essence happiness health life poverty wealth
The essence of life is seeked through polarities such as , health and illness, happiness and suffering, wealth and poverty and so on.
essence serious
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
essence guru
The Guru has dispelled my doubt; in this way, my essence merges into God's essence.
essence phenomenology reservations
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
essence males female
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover. Marina Warner
essence trying useless
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try Mary Stewart
essence people participation
People's participation is the essence of good governance. Narendra Modi
essence limits culture
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. Northrop Frye
essence world spirit
The essence of spirit ... 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. Norman Mailer
essence common-sense long
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. Norman O. Brown
essence live-your-life style
The essence of style is how you live your life Oscar de la Renta
essence criticism creation
Criticism is the essence of creation. Orson Welles
essence jews man state wherever
The ideological essence of this man was one -- the murder and killing of Jews wherever they are and the destruction of the state of Israel, Ariel Sharon
essence firsts limbs
Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses. Johann Kaspar Lavater
essence lord meditate name obtained servant sublime
The Lord has become merciful, and now I meditate on the Name of the Lord. Servant Nanak has obtained the sublime essence of the Lord.
essence government growth
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
essence evil certain
The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will. Epictetus
essence progress moments
Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress. Simon Schama
essence apples parent
Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'. Tim Bajarin
essence soul matter
The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity. Thomas Traherne
essence mind suffering
The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering. Radhanath Swami
essence speak live-by
Speak the essence and live by it.
essence empowering spirituality
We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.
essence forgotten god-love
Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.
essence inquiry genius
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. Ralph Waldo Emerson