Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing. — Adam Sadowsky Copy Share Image
And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The deepest essence of life is always plunged from its thorns.” — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal Copy Share Image
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting. — George Benson Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole Copy Share Image
The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality. — Mahavatar Babaji Copy Share Image
The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Art is the one thing man creates not out of need or luxury; therefore, it is the purest essence of his individuality.” — Anthony Paolucci Copy Share Image
“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad. — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety… — Frederic Mistral Copy Share Image
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
“A Gift for You I send you... The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the part of you… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
“Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
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