Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Twitchell

We never "become one with God" as the metaphysicians or religionists claim. What actually happens is that we become one with Spirit, the essence of God.

Paul Twitchell

We never ""become one with God"" as the metaphysicians or religionists claim. What actually happens is that we become one with Spirit, the essence of God.

Ludwig von Mises

The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

Ludwig von Mises

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

William Shakespeare

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Jonathan Haidt

On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.

Ronald Reagan

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership - not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

Gustave Courbet

Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Albert Ellis

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

Albert Camus

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Daniel Kahneman

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Colin Powell

We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start to lose the essence of who we are as an open, freedom-loving people, welcoming to the rest of the world.

Clive James

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

Douglas Hofstadter

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

Dan Chaon

It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

David Lyons

Listening is the essence of anything.

Confucius

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

Confucius

The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

Anthony Mackie

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Alfred Brendel

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Alfred de Vigny

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfie Kohn

Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?

Andy Warhol

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Andre Dubus

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Anatole France

Change is the essence of life.

Anatole France

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Anais Nin

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

Amanda Lindhout

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

Andrew Weil

The essence of health is inner balance.

Chuck Palahniuk

The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

Alvar Aalto

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture