Essence Quotes
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Simplicity is the essence of universality.
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I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.
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This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
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One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.
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And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.
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Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
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At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?
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Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.
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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.
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The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses
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Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
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The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.
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I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
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Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself
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She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
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Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.
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I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.
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At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of totalitarianism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.
