Essence Quotes

Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

To love each other's essence and to be one-what could be more divine!

Time is of the essence, The crowd and players Are the same age always, But the man in the stand, Is older every season.

Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

There are atoms of air in your lungs that were once in the lungs of everyone who has ever lived. In essence, we are breathing (inspiring) one another.

In essence, we’re their servants who help them and who guard them from the public. (Leo) Oh gee, golly, goodie, Mr. Leo! Can I have my eyes gouged out, too? (Susan)

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

Love is the essence of the universe,. Love in action is service.

I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence of it - the pure heart of advertising.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.

When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.

The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.

All law has its essence in causation.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

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

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

The essence of sport is courage.

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

Burt Lancaster was a very powerful and intriguing person. That essence of what he was, is the very thing that you and I see on the screen when we watch him.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.