Quotes about essence
essence liberty democracy
The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them. George Will
essence comedy crankiness
You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. Jerry Seinfeld
essence addresses poverty
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces. Jeffrey Sachs
essence poverty economics
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.
essence profound simplicity
The essence of profound insight is simplicity. James C. Collins
essence relax able
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. Christopher Hitchens
essence brass-bands tolerance
It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words. Chris Rose
essence may definitions
By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence. George Santayana
essence soul noble
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. Friedrich Nietzsche
essence culture deterioration
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture. Frantz Fanon
essence spirit exploration
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. Frank Borman
essence government slavery
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. Frederick Douglass
essence contradiction universe
Contradiction is the essence of the universe. Fernando Pessoa
essence people trying
In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people. Ferdie Pacheco
essence unity essence-of-beauty
The essence of beauty is unity in variety. Felix Mendelssohn
essence consciousness reason
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence Ezra Pound
essence editing cinema
The essence of cinema is editing. Francis Ford Coppola
essence alex shells
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. Jennifer Egan
essence hype video
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video. Grimes
essence abuse slavery
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! Harriet Beecher Stowe
essence practice
The very essence of success is practice. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
essence judging may
Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality. Hannah Arendt
essence slowness knows
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
essence ideas numbers
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. George Boole
essence indifference inhumanity
Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw
essence essentials abstract
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence. Fred Brooks
essence everybody focus skills stronger
Everybody is always working on the bigger, faster, stronger approach. Our focus here is skills development. We concentrate on the essence of the game.
essence hurricane speed
Speed was of the essence when the hurricane hit, Michael Chertoff
essence fans function support wanting
This was in essence ... a function of the fans wanting to show their support and love.
essence holy maketh
The same essence with this relation, that it proceedeth, maketh the person of the Holy Ghost.
essence maketh relation
The same essence with this relation that it is begotten, maketh the person of the Son.
essence found sublime
With him,i have found the juice, the sublime essence
essence interested pare trying
I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.