We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness, I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.
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.
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