Essence Quotes - Page 34

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.

We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start to lose the essence of who we are as an open, freedom-loving people, welcoming to the rest of the world.

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.

The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.

It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.

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

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed.

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

Indeed, "Hera said. ―Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I‘ve grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form." ―So you‘re like a heat lamp,"Leo guessed. ―Or fertilizer.

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity.