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Essence Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the…
- All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and…
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of…
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
- Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far…
- The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that…
More Essence Quotes
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of… — Sai Baba
- If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. — Irving Babbitt
- The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder… — Eric Bana
- The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. — John Adams
- The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams
- Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an… — Glenn Beck
- What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he… — Annie Besant
- It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that… — H. P. Blavatsky