Essence Quotes

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

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.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

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

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

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.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

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

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

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

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

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

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.