Essentials Quotes
2179 quotes by 1543 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
— Frederick Salomon Perls
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.
— Ken Danby
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
— John D. Rockefeller
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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
— Jacques Ellul
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
— John Dickinson
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In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as…
— Russell Simmons
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
— Ayn Rand
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