It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience.… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“There is no conflict between the individual and the social instincts, any more than there is between the heart and the lungs:… — Nick Riggle Copy Share Image
The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else… By focusing on only… — Paul Buchheit Copy Share Image
I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost:… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business. They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Now I believe in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. I believe that we are in Christ, we are… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
![“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree” quote by Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5f/thomas-merton-231_consent_a-tree-gives-glory-to-god-by-being-a-tre_2294763.jpg)
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