Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art. — George Sand Copy Share Image
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place… — Nina Shaw Copy Share Image
It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the antidote to tyranny, a powerful force that dismantles the walls of oppression and allows the sunlight of scrutiny… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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