Essence Quotes

• 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.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Truth
  • Process
  • Erroneous

• I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Music
  • Cosby Show

• I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Want
  • Knows
  • Differences

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Faith
  • Universe

• Mirrors are the essence of movies.

  

  Nicolas Roeg
  • Movies
  • Essence
  • Mirrors

• She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

  

  Anne Edwards
  • Battle
  • Essence
  • Sexes

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Perspective
  • Essence
  • Opposites

• The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

  

  John Milton
  • God
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Faith
  • Essence
  • Unnatural

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Human

• For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Prayer
  • Essence

• The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

  

  Eva Cox
  • Leadership
  • Essence
  • Making Up

• Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Writing
  • True
  • Essence

• My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Problems
  • Opinions
  • Essence

• True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?

  

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • Justice
  • Mankind
  • Conscience

• Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

  

  Georges Limbour
  • Humanity
  • Essence
  • Press

• The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

  

  Rumi
  • Rose
  • Essence
  • Thorns

• The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

  

  Mike Nichols
  • Risk
  • Knows
  • Differences

• The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Thinking
  • Chess
  • Essence

• Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Knowledge
  • Government
  • Humanity

• Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Suffering
  • Movement
  • Rights

• Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.

  

  David Mumford
  • Unique
  • Mathematics
  • Relation

• Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Essence
  • Suppose

• At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there, deep within, be hind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.

  

  Aaron Hoopes
  • Spiritual
  • Meditation
  • Essence

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