Essence Quotes

1898 Essence quotes by 1317 unique authors

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat… — Isaiah Berlin
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. — Robert Breault
The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity. — Stephen Covey
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… — Frederic Bastiat
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. — Abraham Lincoln
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and… — Gottfried Leibniz
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is… — Niels Bohr
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways… — Vannevar Bush
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from… — Hans Reichenbach
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. — Oliver Heaviside
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly… — Jacob Bronowski
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2… — John Stott
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage… — Arthur Koestler
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. — Georg Cantor
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. — Frederick Douglass
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the… — Eckhart Tolle
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention… — Eknath Easwaran
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. — Constantin Brancusi
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his… — Leonardo da Vinci
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite… — Leo Tolstoy

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