Best Quintessence Quotes
45 Quintessence quotes by 41 unique authors
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When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you…
— Cecelie Berry
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The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the…
— John Fowles
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From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of…
— Adi Shankara
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the…
— Paracelsus
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The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence,…
— Albert Pike
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All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical…
— William Shakespeare
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Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I…
— Thomas Merton
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The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space…
— Hilary Mantel
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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness;…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human…
— Lisa Kleypas
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked…
— Gene Fowler
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When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you dont earn it; you claim it. And you…
— Dee
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The quintessence of life is action. All the living beings cannot spend a single moment without action. Consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly, spontaneously or…
— T Joseph Benziger
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