Quotes about essence
essence age intellect
The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
essence solitude faces
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. Ralph Waldo Emerson
essence giving tea
I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea! Lee Evans
essence focus stories
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story. Terry Goodkind
essence names giving
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary. Ralph Waldo Emerson
essence actors jaguars
I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all. Shannyn Sossamon
essence gears machines
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate Seymour Papert
essence organization people
AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people. Leonard Peltier
essence psychics political
The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them. Laura Riding
essence ideas adoption
If you got to [abortion] centers, young women are provided very few options, in many places they're not told anything about, for example, adoption services that may be available to them. The idea that, in essence, you come in and it's already pre-determined, this is what place this place does. It provides abortions, and we are going to channel you in this direction. Marco Rubio
essence practice doctrine
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation. Marcus Aurelius
essence age important
What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.
essence age lasts
What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.
essence way one-way
Nothing in its essence is one way or the other. Pema Chodron
essence realization
Everything is fresh, the essence of realization. Pema Chodron
essence self bravery
The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Pema Chodron
essence path discomfort
The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it? Pema Chodron
essence luxury joy
Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others. Pema Chodron
essence roots mind
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
essence the-end-of-the-day important
At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important. Queen Rania of Jordan
essence soul words-of-wisdom
To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth! Pythagoras
essence intellectual
To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being. Jacques Maritain
essence ideas perfection
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. Henry Fuseli
essence quality three
Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels. Henry Blodget
essence goal may
The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same. Manmohan Singh
essence flames body
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought. Milan Kundera
essence important way
It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept. Mike Leigh
essence wings air
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. Jose Marti
essence people definitions
The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people. M. Scott Peck
essence atheism fever
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. Luther Burbank
essence together atoms
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages. Martin Rees
essence predator energy
It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit. John Trudell
essence realizing true-freedom
It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom. Tara Brach