Essentials Quotes

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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
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
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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
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
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
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
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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