Quotes about essence
essence intellectual
To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being. Jacques Maritain
essence riches proportion
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. John Wesley
essence sides apostasy
The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier. John Stott
essence people consciousness
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism John Searle
essence people done
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on. John Perry
essence evil broken
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy. John Piper
essence feelings dependence
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. Friedrich Schleiermacher
essence answers subtle
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena. Louis Pasteur
essence answers natural
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
essence play feelings
The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not. John Cleese
essence people definitions
The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people. M. Scott Peck
essence atheism fever
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. Luther Burbank
essence people solitude
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it. May Sarton
essence phenomenology reservations
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
essence males female
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover. Marina Warner
essence trying useless
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try Mary Stewart
essence together atoms
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages. Martin Rees
essence predator energy
It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit. John Trudell
essence religion atheism
The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart. Mark Thomas
essence management productive
The essence of management is to make knowledge productive. Peter Drucker
essence way tasks
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature Niels Bohr
essence religion intolerance
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. Morris Raphael Cohen
essence government people
Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society. Jimmy Reid
essence looks appearance
When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing. Mao Zedong
essence drunk ontology
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. Madeleine L'Engle
essence meditation focus
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life. Eknath Easwaran
essence heaven innocence
Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell John Jakes
essence games people
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. John Hurt
essence want firsts
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. John Gunther
essence transformation possibility
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope. John Ortberg
essence confusion discipline
A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline. John Dewey
essence boredom novelty
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. George Leonard
essence unions welfare
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel