We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its… — John Constable Copy Share Image
History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.” — Idries Shah 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
It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out… — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
“I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people,… — Kristie LeVangie Copy Share Image
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. — David Storey Copy Share Image
The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight… — Rory Miller Copy Share Image
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 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