Essence Quotes

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.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

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.

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.

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.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

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.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.