Essence Quotes

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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… — H. L. Mencken
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly. — Robert Sternberg
Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest… — Wilder Penfield
Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its… — Lee Smolin
It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the… — Unknown Author
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect. — Douglas Hofstadter
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle,… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. — Ray Kurzweil
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of… — Bill Moyers
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every… — William O. Douglas
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. — Georg Buchner
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments… — Peter Cheeke
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. — Aleister Crowley
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism,… — Oliver Goldsmith
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual… — Zhuangzi
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover. — Marina Warner
If you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin. — Katherine Harris
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in… — Maria Montessori
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. — Garrett Hardin
Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism… — Julius Evola
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America. — Marilyn vos Savant
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped… — Aime Cesaire
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a… — Steven Biko
David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it… — Nicole Krauss
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is… — Donald Judd

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