Essence Quotes

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

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.

The essence of good government is trust.

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.

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

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.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

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.

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

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 romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.