"Man's existence precedes his essence" — Jean-Paul Sartre

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• The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but… — Isaac Asimov
• Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very… — Sai Baba
• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy… — Irving Babbitt
• The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
• I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a… — Eric Bana
• The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. — John Adams
• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams
• Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you… — Glenn Beck
• What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose… — Annie Besant
• It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate… — H. P. Blavatsky

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