Essence Quotes

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We should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of… — Jasper Fforde
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set… — Richard Ford
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe. — Bertrand Russell
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror. — Theodor Haecker
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration… — Frantz Fanon
The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good? — Vidal Sassoon
Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character. — John Larroquette
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. — Demi Moore
I want to be defined by my own essence. — Kathy Bates
When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I… — Michelle Branch
Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying… — Bootsy Collins
It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which… — Adrian Cronauer
Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same. — Jenna Dewan
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your… — Charles S. Dutton
When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought… — Sam Farr
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence… — Cai Guo-Qiang
Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting. In the social… — Jerry Greenfield
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior… — Carl Rogers
Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of… — Russell Peters
One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought? — Friedrich Engels
I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require… — Rene Descartes
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it… — Paramahansa Yogananda

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