Essential Quotes

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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important… — Robert D. Hales
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. — Willard Van Orman Quine
The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved. — Alexander McCall Smith
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as… — Gabrielle Roth
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. — Nancy Mitford
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for… — Jack Kornfield
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they… — Carl Sagan
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a… — Charles Spurgeon
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are… — James Jeans
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes… — Max Wertheimer
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their… — Bertrand Russell
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become… — Eckhart Tolle
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the… — Robert Collier
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence. — Frederick Salomon Perls
I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more… — Rajneesh
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty… — Buck Rodgers
The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the… — Mark Tobey
I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it… — Lee Krasner
Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process. — Ken Danby
Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life. — John D. Rockefeller
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. — Jacques Ellul

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