Essence Quotes

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Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. — Carl Jung
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence… — Martin Heidegger
The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already… — Martin Heidegger
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt
Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning… — Hannah Arendt
Evaluations, in essence, are … ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate. — Gilles Deleuze
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole
I was blessed with good genetics, but my essence is very happy and warm and I don’t take my job too seriously. I’m not saving… — Miranda Kerr
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. — Piet Mondrian
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are… — Valentina Tereshkova
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started. — Sonia Sotomayor
Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth,… — Ernest Holmes
I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes… — Maurice Sendak
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
Time is of the essence - and I'm very short of essence. — Graham Hill
Time is of the essence and I don't have much essence left. — Graham Hill
Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six… — Christine O'Donnell
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate… — Bill Sienkiewicz
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms… — Walter Bagehot
People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to… — George H. W. Bush

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