Their Essence Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges…
— Humphry Davy
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The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and…
— Adolf Hitler
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The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance…
— William James
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible…
— John Desmond Bernal
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I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped…
— Aime Cesaire
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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.
— Charles Lindbergh
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It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may…
— Maimonides
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Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of…
— Iris Murdoch
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But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more…
— Marcel Proust
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A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in…
— Robert Motherwell
Who Wrote These Their Essence Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Their Essence Quotes as follows: