Their Essence Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
To know another human being in their essence, you donâ€™t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We… — Eckhart Tolle
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
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
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
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
Art and morality are, with certain provisosâ€¦one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of… — Iris Murdoch
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
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

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