Essence Quotes
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Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
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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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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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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.
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Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
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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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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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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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In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
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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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I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
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She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
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Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.
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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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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.
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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.
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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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Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
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Time is of the essence and it's running out. We've got to feel good about ourselves.
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The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.
