Essence Quotes - Page 34

• I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

  Giordano Bruno

  Divine, Participation

  "Great Theosophists: Giordano Bruno". Theosophy Magazine, Volume 26, No. 8 (pp. 338-344), June 1938.

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• There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Mean, Hands, Liberty

  Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.

  Errico Malatesta

  Understanding, Needs, Defense

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.138, PM Press

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• Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.  Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering.  Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

  Twyla Tharp

  Passion, Skills, Two

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• The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

  John Lescroart

  Law, Enemy, Fascism

  John Lescroart (2009). “A Plague of Secrets”, p.90, Penguin

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• You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.

  Satya Nadella

  Couple, Trying, Lines

  "Satya Nadella named Microsoft CEO as Bill Gates steps down as chairman" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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• God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Doe, Arguing

  Paul Tillich (1973). “Systematic Theology”, p.205, University of Chicago Press

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• The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Discipleship, Accounts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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• It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

  John Trudell

  Energy, Predator, Spirit

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• In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

  John Trudell

  Song, Reality, Stories

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

  Alvar Aalto

  Style, Development, Architecture

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

  C. S. Lewis

  Views, Natural, Ends

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.137, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, May, Granted

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Law, Style, Able

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• After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Redemption, Belief

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.240, Vintage

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• It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Climate, May, Impossible

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely.

  Tony Blair

  Taken, Doubt, Climate

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Simplicity, Desire, Needs

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• If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, Listening, World

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• If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Learning, Cat

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• I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.

  Joe Biden

  Children, Believe, Rights

  "Promises to Keep". Book by Joe Biden, 2008.

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• Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

  Thomas McGuane

  Rivers, Way, Doe

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• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Feelings, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.98, Mango Media Inc.

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• In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Two, Quality

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Music, Art, Understanding

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