Essence Quotes - Page 39

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

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 essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.

[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

As far as we can reach, He Who Is, and God, are the special names of His Essence; and of these especially He Who Is, not only because when He spoke to Moses in the mount, and Moses asked what His Name was, this was what He called Himself, bidding him say to the people 'I Am has sent me' (Ex. 3:14), but also because we find that this Name is the more strictly appropriate.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics.

To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly to admit that factual inequality would justify unequal treatment, and the proof that some differences do, in fact, exist would not be long in forthcoming. It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.