Essence Quotes

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.

The essence of justice is mercy.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.