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No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

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Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you…
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned…
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet…
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff -…
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot…
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life…
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it…
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,…
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to…
Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we…
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our…

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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than… — Gottfried Leibniz
Man's existence precedes his essence — Jean-Paul Sartre
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made,… — Baruch Spinoza
If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper… — The Ultimate Warrior
The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual… — Martin Heidegger
Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire.… — Unknown Author
Khesed...mercy...love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature… — Jonathan Cahn
As far as we can reach, He Who Is, and God, are the special names of His Essence; and of these especially… — Gregory of Nazianzus
No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field. — Arnold J. Toynbee
The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest… — Rumi
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect… — Reinhold Niebuhr
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf

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