Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

Jerry Bridges

This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.

Francis Thompson

So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.

Horace

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

Huston Smith

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

James D. Watson

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

James Gleick

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

Milan Kundera

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.

Mike Leigh

It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

Jose Marti

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

The Lord has become merciful, and now I meditate on the Name of the Lord. Servant Nanak has obtained the sublime essence of the Lord.

Epictetus

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

Hermann Hesse

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

Henri Matisse

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

Narendra Modi

People's participation is the essence of good governance.

Northrop Frye

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Norman Mailer

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

Norman O. Brown

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Oscar de la Renta

The essence of style is how you live your life

Orson Welles

Criticism is the essence of creation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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 significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

Mason Cooley

Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.

Michael K. Powell

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

Mark Driscoll

I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

Ted Cruz

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

Manmohan Singh

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.

Mahatma Gandhi

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

Mahatma Gandhi

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

Mahatma Gandhi

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

John Adams

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

John Adams

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.