Essence Quotes

1898 Essence quotes by 1317 unique authors

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as… — Edmund Burke
The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes. — Bertrand Russell
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. — Anatole France
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading… — Benjamin Haydon
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate — Seymour Papert
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence.… — Melina Mercouri
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the… — Victor Borge
Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching. — John Whitmore
Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color… — Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found… — Johann Joachim Winckelmann
The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things. — Franz von Papen
The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its… — Alberto Villoldo
The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and… — Stanley Milgram
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God. — Neil T Anderson
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is… — Keith Devlin
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of… — Michael Dirda
We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball observed, peace and… — Cecil O. Samuelson
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long… — Norman O. Brown
Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it. — Emmanuelle Riva
In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all… — Pavel Florensky
We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts… — Ramakrishna
Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of… — Goa Gil
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a… — Muriel Barbery
Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The… — Joan Jett

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