Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey,… — Michael Chabon
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. — Wendell Berry
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. — Maureen Johnson
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of… — Barbara Kingsolver
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our… — Hunter S. Thompson
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown… — China Mieville
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely… — Bertrand Russell
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially… — Viktor E. Frankl
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. — Shulamith Firestone
no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough… — Ted Dekker
If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters… — Michael Ende
There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of… — Michael Ende
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. — Guy Debord
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… — Robert Hughes
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we… — Vaclav Havel
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It… — Ray Bradbury
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an… — Duane Michals
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they… — Margaret Wise Brown
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The existence of other people is essentially awkward. — Lionel Shriver
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute — Amartya Sen

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