Essence Quotes

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

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

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Desire is the very essence of man.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.