Essence Quotes

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.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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.

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

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

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.

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

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.