Essence Quotes - Page 9

• Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Needs, Poetry Is

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• People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Grateful, Successful, Differences

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• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

  Irving Babbitt

  Men, Democracy, Might

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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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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• The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

  Vittorio Gregotti

  Design, Tasks, Transformation

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• The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

  William James

  Men, Giving, Political

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.

  Rynn Berry

  Glasses, Vegetarianism, White

  "The Vegan Sourcebook". Book by Joanne Stepaniak (p. 40), 1998.

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• [New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as the character of the people who live here will not be altered by this tragedy.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Character, Cities

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• All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, Song, Piano

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.247

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• According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Lying, Practice, Historical

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• It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Science, Long, Transcendentalism

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

  Aristotle

  Substance, Study, Deep Ecology

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• The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all. I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in whatever way we can.

  Jackie Huggins

  Thinking, Australia, Opinion Leaders

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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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• The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Ideas, People, Dramatic

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• Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

  Galileo Galilei

  Names, Firsts, Attributes

  "Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Stillman Drake (p. 92), 1957.

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• The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

  Karl Jaspers

  Wise, Philosophy, Mean

  "Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1951.

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• Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Memories, Historical, Inversions

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• Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

  Huston Smith

  Art, Law, Drawing

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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• Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

  Jacques Audiard

  Jobs, Character, Iconic

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• What does it take to change the essence of a man?

  Steven Seagal

  Men, Doe

  "Fictional character: Forrest Taft". "On Deadly Ground", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people will continue to seek or demand the impossible. They will imagine what does not or cannot happen, misunderstand occurrences and events, and interpret them on the basis of cherished illusions which in no way reflect God's sunan or the essence of Islamic law.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Islamic, Reality, Law

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• Kindness is the essence of greatness.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Kindness, Greatness

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