Essence Quotes
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Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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Pure thought is itself the divine existence; and conversely, the divine existence, in its immediate essence, is nothing else than pure thought.
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The very essence of success is practice.
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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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.
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She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.
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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
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Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
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In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
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Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.
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Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
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Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
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The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?
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Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
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The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.
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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
