Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Bruce Coville

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Barry Hannah

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

Eckhart Tolle

When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness. Through you, the universe is becoming aware of itself! Just as space enables all things to exist and just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.

Denis Waitley

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Deborah Eisenberg

The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.

Dennis Kucinich

If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.

Edgar Cayce

Life—God—in its essence is vibration.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

Edwin Land

The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The essence of justice is mercy.

Bertrand Russell

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

Benito Mussolini

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.

Cameron Diaz

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Dana Gioia

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

Elia Kazan

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

Arlen Specter

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Albert Pike

There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of, that sublime system which gives the venerable institution its peculiar identity as a science of morality, and it behooves every disciple diligently to ponder and inwardly digest.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Alexander Theroux

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Bernie Siegel

If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.

Allen Ginsberg

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

Allan Bloom

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

Andrea Dworkin

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

A. P. Herbert

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

Agatha Christie

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

Paul Twitchell

We never "become one with God" as the metaphysicians or religionists claim. What actually happens is that we become one with Spirit, the essence of God.

Paul Twitchell

We never ""become one with God"" as the metaphysicians or religionists claim. What actually happens is that we become one with Spirit, the essence of God.

Ludwig von Mises

The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.