Essence Quotes - Page 32

• You're as good as anybody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• All men are alike when asleep.

  Aristotle

  Men

  Aristotle (2011). “The Eudemian Ethics”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

  Dalai Lama

  Feelings, Suffering, Trying

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• We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

  Richard Rorty

  Paradise, Individual, Equal

  Richard Rorty (1991). “Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Opportunity, Trials

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• The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Race, World

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• What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.

  Radhanath Swami

  Blessing, Appreciate, Possibility

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• Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

  Radhanath Swami

  Forgotten, God Love, Pure Love

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• The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources.

  Walter Russell

  Mean, Goal, Entrepreneur

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• [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

  Fisher Ames

  Country, Government, Democracy

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• Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.

  Dan Simmons

  Civilization, Ideas, Creative

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• The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

  George Orwell

  Father, Son, Persistence

  "1984".

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• The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

  Richard Restak

  Brain, Function, Gathering Data

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• The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Eye, Men, America

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• The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Engineering, Manipulation

  Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.116, University of Oklahoma Press

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• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.

  Graham Hancock

  Miracle, Expansion, Use

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• It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

  Boethius

  Tragedy, Passing Away, Depth

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• The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Responsibility, Fighting, Ideas

  "Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara". Book by Andrew Sinclair, 2006.

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• The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

  Jerome Bruner

  Creativity, Thinking, Order

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• In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Struggle, Men, World Suffering

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Rybalka, Michel Contat, Richard C. McCleary (1985). “The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• Making my last record, Warrior, was a pretty miserable process, and it wore my spirit down. I was fighting like hell to keep my whole irreverent essence and everything raw and visceral that I stand for in it, but in the end I was promoting something that wasn't the animal I wanted it to be. I decided to face my problem head-on.

  Kesha

  Fighting, Warrior, Animal

  "Kesha Opens Up About Life Before Rehab" by Lily Karln, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

  George Benson

  Song, Essence Of Life, Lasting

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• If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Reality, Shells, Appearance

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