Essence Quotes

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.