Essence Quotes

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

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.

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

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.

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.

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.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.